Secondary Residence or Not?
Through the dining room window of the holiday house, I can see a shroud of mist floating lazily around the mountain peak, 500m. Accompanying the mountainous view is the incessant…
Home & Garden
Beautiful Lettuce
The second batch of oak leaf lettuce, flourishing in my garden. I have finally decided to try the laitue feuille de chêne or oak leaf lettuce from our garden. It…
Spring Is Here…almost
Thanks to the former house owner, I am now enjoying the flowers of her labour. It’s our first spring in the house that we bought last July. Since we only…
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…