The Unadventurous Traveller

The Unadventurous Traveller The Wild Side of Life We enjoyed our lives and carried on adapting to French living. Outside of school, work and doing up the various buildings, we enjoyed the vast open space that many houses in France afford people. I had a vegetable garden - my ‘Potager’ - which I really enjoyed tinkering about on, planting vegetables, sharing in the delights of growing produce with the children and Dale, and eating the delights there and then! Vegetable garden Fresh peas, beans, lettuce, radishes, carrots, potatoes, and  even aubergines etc! The kids would help me by digging up the potatoes or carrots and it was such a pleasurable activity for me, to wind down after work. It was also another way to get me into the sunshine and was a great thing to teach the kids where vegetables really come from and how hard it is to grow certain things we just take for granted. I loved being able to give away some surplus produce  to our neighbours, gite guests and of course pl...

The Unadventurous Traveller Life continued for us in our house in La Creuse, France. We loved the life, we loved exploring new places, seeing the beauty of La Creuse and having some freedom and space. I think this is a huge benefit to having a house in France; the size of property and garden you can purchase for your money, which vastly differs to the size of property and garden we left behind in the UK. We each had our own space, the kids could play outside and indoors, ride their bikes, run and play carefree for as long as they wished.  I had room to do crafty things like sewing, reading, work, exercise and there were so many countryside walks I could run on, around and about too. Dale had plenty of space for his photography outside, in barns and wherever the wildlife was - the peace and tranquility was amazing.   Annoying Safe After much decorating, cleaning and major works as described in the last two blogs , life for all of us resumed into a normal flow. School started, ...