If you ask people why they chose to come to live in France their answers will probably include the weather, the pace of life, the property prices. Dig a bit deeper and you will find a range of personal stories all of which led to ‘La Vie Francaise’.

For us ? A new and precious second marriage and two very stressful hour eating jobs that left us little time for each other and a heart bypass operation that left us wanting to make the most of every following day ! We weren’t retirement age so we had to think of travel arrangements for Kevin to be able to carry on working and something for me to do too - neither of us are the ‘We are on a permanent holiday’ type of folk. I have had a long love affair with France and have very dear French friends in the north of France and so the decision to make France our destination didn’t need much thinking about - in fact we didn’t want to think about it too much in case I, ever the over cautious one, got cold feet ! !

So we decided to jump and see if the parachute opened ! ! ! ! ! ! !