Secondary Residence or Not?
Every spring, we return to the same gîte in Bozel, tucked in the Savoie mountains — and every year, the same debate resurfaces: should we finally buy a secondary residence,…
Home & Garden
Beautiful Lettuce
After months of dodging snails and slugs, I finally harvest my homegrown oak leaf lettuce — only to find it tastes exactly like the supermarket kind.
Spring Is Here…almost
A Spring Garden in France, Full of Surprises Thanks to the former house owner, I am now enjoying the flowers of her labour. It’s our first spring garden in France,…
Gardener Quest (Part 2)
It was half way through autumn and I still had not found a jardinier or a gardener. For the past few months, I had been looking after the garden myself–weeding…
Gardener Quest (Part 1)
How naive we were. €500 for the initial overhaul of the garden. That was the initial budget, back in July 2021 when just moved into the house, we allocated to…