Barn to Gîte #7
The Unadventurous Traveller Doing up the house was an ongoing project which took many years and there was always something else that needed doing! We had two very large barns as part of our property and another tumbledown house on one side of the main house, of which only half now remained standing. A woodshed was attached to one barn and there was also another funny little building which used to be an outside toilet, used before they installed the new plumbed toilet inside the house. It must have looked beautiful walking through the French cottage garden with its little privet box hedging to guide you along the path past roses and delicate little flowers. One of the vendors had mentioned this garden that he remembered from his youth. However there was another pressing project which started to burn into Dale’s ‘to do’ list… Planning the Gîte After some time Dale decided to start work on creating a gîte. This type of project is undertaken by many people moving to France...