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Juste Claudia

Singaporean living in France, exploring France, Europe and Everywhere.

Gardening Life Rambles

My New Hobby – Gardening

By Juste Claudia on Saturday, August 28, 2021

It has never crossed my mind that I would pickup gardening at my age, and that I actually like it. I was raised a city girl and spent most of my life living in apartments in various cosmopolitain cities. Back in Singapore, my hometown, I was privileged to live with my parents on the ground …

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Travel Log

Road Trip – France To Romania

By Juste Claudia on Thursday, August 12, 2021

Since the house renovation cannot start until September, Silviu and I have decided to treasure the rest of our summer holidays and make a road trip to visit his home town, Sebes, Romania. After staying only five days in our new home, we put down our mops and rags, declare a moratorium on the battle …

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A House In France Life Rambles

World Of Tiles

By Juste Claudia on Saturday, July 17, 2021

Never have I thought that I would have a reason to visit a tile specialist store, no, actually two stores, and in just one day. And spent more than two hours to boot in these two stores without being bored. That was what I did on the 3rd day of being a house owner in …

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A House In France Life Rambles

A House Owner – Day 1

By Juste Claudia on Friday, July 16, 2021

We have gotten the keys! We are now the official owners of a French house in Gometz-le-Chatel, Essonne, a little town of 2,500 inhabitants, about 30km south of Paris.  It was on the eve of the French National Day that the house was transferred to our names—four and a half months after the seller  (an …

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Buying A House In France (Part 8)

By Juste Claudia on Sunday, July 11, 2021

This was our 8th house visit, and the last stop of our ‘Buying A House in France’ quest. We started our house visits in the middle of January 2021, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, and it took us 2.5 months of active house searching before completing our quest. Mired in four months of French administration before …

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Buying A House In France (Part 7)

By Juste Claudia on Thursday, July 1, 2021

After the 4th house visit debacle, we became a pair of more experienced house buyers. On the same day we changed our mind on the 4th house, we visited the 5th and the 6th houses. Would one of them, as the French would say, be un coup de coeur, capture our heart? The Cat House, …

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Buying A House In France (Part 6)

By Juste Claudia on Monday, June 21, 2021

4th House Visit It was the first week of February. We had been actively searching for a house to buy since the start of the year. However, we had only visited three houses so far. Our calls to real estate agents, hoping to make appointments to visit houses, were fruitless: either the houses had already …

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Buying A House In France (Part 5)

By Juste Claudia on Friday, June 18, 2021

Over four months from January to April 2021, we visited a total of eight houses. The following recounts three of our experiences. House Visits 1st House Visit On Saturday, 15 January 2021, we did our first house visit. Since it was our very first visit, we were super excited despite the gray winter sky on …

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Buying A House In France (Part 4)

By Juste Claudia on Thursday, June 17, 2021

The pickings on seloger.com continued to be limited in the new year 2021. We were still performing mainly desktop property market research even after the lockdown had been lifted mid-December (but followed by curfew), reason being we had not found any potential ‘candidates’ for house visits.   Silviu’s List of Castles Combing through seloger.com was …

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Buying A House In France (Part 3)

By Juste Claudia on Thursday, June 17, 2021

I have never lived in a house. When I was in Singapore, I lived with my parents in a condominium, a condominium that my parents have been living in for close to forty years. The reason why my parents have never bought a house in Singapore is because they are not Singapore citizens. In Singapore, …

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