Never felt such relief to be on a Brittany Ferry...
Seven days later I’m at the vet in Ruffec getting the Iggys checked in preparation for our return trip. We have had a full week of working on the house. Four days in a row white washing walls to start with. Roddy then gave up suffering snow blindness and decided to paint the stairwell instead using all sorts of left over paints he’d mixed from old pots in the garage. Finally, I have finished painting the dormitory, landing, the front bedroom of the gîte and am making progress
Never felt such relief to be off a Brittany Ferry...
After a 3 hour car journey in torrential rain and strong winds we arrive at Portsmouth half expecting the ferry to be cancelled, though surprisingly its just delayed by 1 hour. Think we are in for a bit of a rough crossing... Onboard, we head up to the bar wondering where our friends are. They came out to france a few years ago looking for their maison secondaire in Charente Maritime and used our house as a base for their property search. After their initial trip, when back i
