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Changeover days

août 18th, 2007|Categories: Life at Brittany Gites|

Saturday is the busiest day for the gites, I ask holiday makers to vacate their gite before 10am and the new clients are able to arrive from 4pm onwards. I have five houses (total floor surface of 320m2) with a total of 11 bathrooms to clean. Beds to [...]

Gardens

août 7th, 2007|Categories: Property updates|

The gardens have really taken over this year, we had a dry and sunny April, but then it rained a great deal during May, June and July. I have 1.7 hectaires of land here (approximately 4 acres) and also lots of it is lawned (4.5 hours of mowing [...]

Harvest

août 7th, 2007|Categories: Brittany|

In our commune (village) there are 1000 habitants, so not so big, however there are 34 farms in the commune – so a large proportion of farmers. My partner, Yves, is a dairy farmer with around 50 hectares (100 acres) and 45 milking cows. Most of his fields [...]

Welcome

juin 28th, 2007|Categories: Life at Brittany Gites|

Welcome to my blog. A short history of why I am here : I was working in the computer industry in England with two small children Elizabeth and Hugh (2 and 4 at the time) and never quite seeing enough of them. I had a nanny, so they [...]