Yesterday we picked up our 2nd year visa from Gueret.
Our year has been full of:
- adventure
- travelling
- socialising and entertaining
- works/renovations
- trip back to Australia
- organising of paperwork
- stripping back of linen cupboard
- wood work projects - building of wardrobe space and shelves for bedroom, architraves and skirting
- plumbing work
- works in the barn
- sewing projects
- cooking and home grown foods
- soap making
- curtain making
- setting up stall at brocante
- selling stuff via facebook sites
- attending many local village functions
- many luncheons and dinners
- surviving winter
- house sits
- making new friends
- getting to know neighbours
- learning french in many different ways - private lessons, village group lessons, Duolingo
- regular attendance at the parish catholic church with setting up tables and cleaning up afterwards
- visiting different markets
There's probably so much more I could mention but have to stop somewhere. Least of all to say that our year in France has just been full on from the time we arrived.
The highlights of the year have been many but will keep the list to a few main ones:
- Recent visit from our son Mick
- Ensconcing ourselves into all things french
- Meeting some wonderful people
- Randonées
- Seeing the most amazing countryside change in all four seasons
- the price of the french wine
- Looking forward to our next 12 months in France - hopefully at a slower pace
Some of the lowlights of France:
- getting used to the closing hours of businesses at lunch time
- the bureaucracy
- checkout operators not packing your groceries
- missing Bunnings, vegemite, milo, Allen's lollies, cappacino's, cooked breakfasts
Here's to our second year in France
Wendy
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