how not to get bored in retirement In my late teens, one of my favorite band’s anthems was “Fear is Never Boring.” But in Montpellier, no need for fright because there’s always something interesting to do. In the last week, Russ and I dipped our toes into several totally different milieus. This city always has…
🥖 Between the Baguettes 🥖 A small nibble from French expat life NEW FEATURE Introducing a new feature to the blog: Between the Baguettes, small nibbles of our French expat life in between larger blog posts. So, keep an eye on your email for the baguettes, and know that a brief update is headed your…
In UPDATE: MONTPELLIER, WE ARE HERE!, you saw our apartment fully furnished with the last owner’s stuff. Well, most of that didn’t come with the purchase price. Including the light fixtures, refrigerator and any furnishings. So, we had some work to do! And, apparently, plenty of rookie errors. And for any of you who know…
Well, it’s been a while. And we are officially French residents! And we didn’t get here exactly as predicted. So, a bit of history. After our last trip to France, see Map Dot Quest, we continued our discourse with Renestance on new construction properties and just didn’t seem to find the right thing. Then, last…
September 2023 couldn’t get here fast enough. Patience is not one of our family’s best virtues, and we were chomping at the bit to get back to France and apply our carefully considered requirements to finding a map dot. Montpellier was our predetermined favorite, but Pau and Toulouse were contenders in the map dot quest….
With living in Paris out, buying in the south in, Russ and I were a bit lost. We knew we wanted to live in the south of France but where and did our requirements still apply? How did we figure this out? For a year before the trip that turned our plans upside down, most…
Two trips, multiple seminars, and countless YouTube videos into pondering retirement in Europe greatly refined our thought process. A vision of our future existed: Barcelona could have fit in the above, but another factor helped my campaign for a French Revolution. After our last visit, part of the opposition government in the city was thrown…
In 2019, a year after our Spain trip, it was time for another European adventure. Paris-Barcelona-Paris-Home. Three weeks of a magical adventure. I love Paris and apparently, I was determined to drag Russ around to everything near and dear to my heart. In my mind what a better way to trounce jet lag than to…
Spanish Adventure Russ and I were continuously in the process of researching what moving overseas meant to us and the next step seemed logical: visit. We set up a savings account aptly named Travel Fund and started planning our Spanish adventure. Our itinerary would start in Barcelona, then travel by high-speed train down the Mediterranean…
I’m Leslie, a 60-year-old Midwesterner married to my husband, Russ. Along with our two Shih Tzus, Zoey and Coco, we’re in the process of our ultimate adventure, moving from stateside to the South of France. This blog chronicles from inception to present our adventures along the way. Where to? Russ is in reality responsible for…
