Richard-R Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Does any one else feel a big sigh of relief now that the holiday season is over. It was so bad down here in coastal Aude last year with things falling off peoples cars on the autoroute, drunk drivers, people wearing swimware to the supermarket in Narbonne, tourist messing around with our plants etc (moan, moan)etc that this year i spent 4 weeks away in Asia. Suppose i will have to live with paradise for only 11 months of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letrangere Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 You make a very good point here, Richard. Prospective house buyers are always, quite sensibly, told to view properties in the depths of winter but it could be argued that it's equally as important to see what they're letting themselves in for in mid summer. M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IAN_S Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 We live in small village with a lot of maison secondaire owners, mostly from Narbonne/Toulouse. They come into the village each summer saying whoopee les vacances while I am laying concrete or some other back breaking task in the boiling sun! We live on a small place that has switchable lights for boules and it is then lit like a stage every night for two months. The only way out is play with them, which we do and it's good fun of course.Then it's aperos almost every evening at different houses but basically the same people so by mid August....Come August 31 suddenly all is quiet and we have our village back!Don't think I'm really complaining but now we can hear the birds sing for a change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 To put the other side of the coin, we were only too pleased when life came back to our old village in the Dordogne. One of the reasons we moved from the there, was because of the way the village completely died in Autumn through to late spring. I guess when one has kids moving swiftly in to their teenage years, many requirements are different but, even we felt like we couldn't spend another long, often wet, sometimes dismal, too often cold and the dark winter nights in the lifeless village. I have to say that this is said, without even putting the commercial side of affairs in to the issue.I guess once a townie, always a townie but we did enjoy the way of life like that for a number of years. Now we live with a good mix of both, live in the countryside but very close to a few largish towns.Each to their own I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRT17 Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 [quote]To put the other side of the coin, we were only too pleased when life came back to our old village in the Dordogne. One of the reasons we moved from the there, was because of the way the village com...[/quote]As you say Miki, each to his own. I totally agree with your comments. I am just reading Ruth Sylvestre's "A House in the Sunflowers" and she describes closing the house at the end of the Summer, being sorry to leave for London but knowing that there would not be enough to entertain them all Winter in a small, very rural village. I can relate to this.Gill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letrangere Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 Gill, isn't that a lovely book? One of the early house in France stories and still, IMHO, one of the best. I first read it sitting in a field one glorious summer in the SW corner of 46, probably not terribly far from where she wrote it. And about 10/12 years ago one of the UK country living magazines ran a feature on her house with photographs, she's done a beautiful, truly authentic restoration, it's quite exquisite. M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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