Last Friday evening we started our weekend with new french friends who we recently met.They are also building a house nearby to us.It was nice to feel we could get through a couple of hours spoken mostly in French, something we certainly could not do when we came here.
We spent Saturday with our client showing him 5 houses. We await the out come. On arrival home we had a letter from EDF, the Electricity people stating that as our bill was unpaid,unless they recieved payment by Tuesday they would terminate our supply! I spent 40 minutes on the phone trying to explain what the problem was but with no success.
Thankfully we could put this worry to one side Sunday as we joined 3 other couples for lunch. It really was the perfect way to pass a Sunday, a wet one too, sitting at the table for over 4 hours - most enjoyable.
We contacted EDF Monday to be told there computers were down - nothing they could do! We decided to go to their local offices - 28 kilomtres away in Cavaillon. Can you believe it was closed 'exceptional'. We were becoming a little fraught - so we called on a friend who is fluent in French for help. Her phone cal revealed that EDF have now issued a revised invoice which we await with trepidation!
A little insight into our life and travels in Provence, without doubt one of the most beautiful regions of France where we are lucky enough to live and run our business offering luxury holiday rentals, and in the off season indulging in some travel and leisure.
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