Author Archives: heatherjway

If things have been silent here for a while, it’s because I’ve been breathing into a paper bag. The last few weeks have been a roller coaster — Bank liaison man: “I’ve gotten 10 refusals from banks because one of you is self-employed and you’re not French residents.” This, a week before the deadline inContinue reading “No news isn’t good news”

When the exact product you want doesn’t exist… create it! And if anyone knows how to use BONFIRE and have a product available for more than a day… let me in on the secret! https://www.bonfire.com/store/away-in-france/

Any rational person would probably wonder what we’re thinking. We’ve decided to become homeowners in France, when we’ve never been homeowners before in our home countries. Don’t worry. I’m wondering, too. So, for any readers who might consider taking this on, here are the steps you need to undertake to make this HAPPEN. Find theContinue reading “How the … are we going to do this?”

August, 2021. We decide to give two of the houses a second look: the 400-square-meter cruise ship (Titanic?) of a house and the fixer-upper farmhouse near Cluny. To have someone more experienced in our corner, we bring along a friend of l’époux this time when we revisit the cruise ship house. He cautions us thatContinue reading “The hunt continues”