Camping

About 5 years ago we went on a summer camping holiday to Brittany for 3 weeks. While in central Brittany we were taken by the number of cute little cottages and ruins on the market for impressively low prices.
There was a picture in an Immobiliers (estate agent) of what seemed to be a fairly large bush with a chimney poking out the top which we passed over quickly. We were urged to view as she said it was in sound structural condition so we obliged.... and crawled through undergrowth to view an entirely pitch black interior...
I immediately loved the feeling of the place and it's situation on the edge of a Napoleonic town/village and virtually on the Nantes Brest canal.... and spent the next 6 months sorting out paperwork, remortgages and loans. We finally travelled over in January and signed the papers at the Notaires (solicitor) and went to view our purchase!!
Have you ever stayed in a stone cottage that hasn't had anyone living there in donkey's years? Let me tell you that it is absolutely freezing... much better to stay outdoors in a tent!
Our first big purchase was a Villager Log Burner :-)

Centre of the town SOOC Sunday

The canal 

Cottage on the right, barn on the left

mmm work!

Putting the floor slabs in in the living room

bathroom 

next job to lime render the kitchen.. OH's birthday present was a 1 day lime rendering course with Ty Mawr :)

small ruin in garden

Madonna found on gable end in barn

Kipper Loves France ^..^