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…
