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Ten Very Good Years of The Good Life France


It was in February 2004 that, residing and dealing in London, I took a day without work work to catch the ferry from Dover to Calais to purchase wine with my dad and my husband Mark. It was a bittersweet day. It was our wedding ceremony anniversary and my mum’s birthday was the identical week. She had sadly handed away two years earlier than and my heartbroken dad drowned his sorrows in whisky. I had an concept that wine can be higher for him, so on a glacial, sleet-driven day we shopped for wine in Calais and completed simply in time to overlook the restaurant lunchtime opening hours! Wandering miserably round a city about an hour inland from the port, we stopped to have a look at homes in a property agent’s retailer window. Earlier than we knew it, he provided us espresso and persuaded us, effectively me actually, to have a look at his three most cost-effective homes regardless that I assured him we had no cash, and we weren’t fascinated by shopping for a home in France.

I went dwelling later that day having bought not simply wine – however a hovel of a French farmhouse! We spent holidays right here for a few years however ultimately, that previous hovel stole our hearts and so did our little village in the midst of nowhere with its quirky inhabitants, Jean-Claude who by no means knowingly does a day’s work, Claudette, a 90-year-old marvel who bakes probably the most delectable desserts and is the wisest girl I’ve ever met, Bread Man who delivers the bread to our village and plenty of extra fantastic folks. So we moved to France for a rollercoaster new life. It’s an extended story, three books lengthy in actual fact (for those who’re there are particulars beneath!).

And – The Good Life France is 10 years previous! After we first moved right here, we had a LOT of renovating to do. The home leaked, some rooms had naked earth flooring and it was hardly liveable. With the intention to save time chatting to family and friends who phoned for nightly stories of our progress, Mark created a web site for me. I wrote about life in France, the individuals I met and the locations I went. I turned the Forrest Gump of writing! Since these early days the web site has grown rather a lot, and I now publish a free journal which has had a staggering 8.7 million readers within the final ten months (wow) and a enjoyable podcast. And if something, my ardour for sharing the France that I’m nonetheless attending to know and exploring as a lot as I can, has additionally grown.

Thanks a lot from the underside of my coronary heart for subscribing to my e-newsletter, for all of your feedback on social media (Fb, Instagram and Twitter), for studying the posts on my web site, for studying and sharing the journal and listening to the podcast.

Bisous from a humbled author, sitting in slightly transformed pigsty/writing den, in the midst of nowhere, rural northern France who would share her gingerbread cake with you if she may…

Janine Marsh is Writer of My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream,  My 4 Seasons in France: A 12 months of the Good Life and Toujours la France: Dwelling the Dream in Rural France all out there as e book, print & audio, on Amazon in every single place & all good bookshops on-line.

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