After our trip to Turkey my sister Gillian & her husband Neil came out to help prepare Les Cypres for our first guests and also help prepare us for our move to the Gite.
They worked like Trojans and we are enormously grateful for everything they did!!
With their consent we slipped back to England for a weekend to attend the wedding of my old business partner John to Gladys and a very nice weekend it was to at the Master builders Hotel in Beaulieu. We finally got to grips with our move and on the 26th June spent our first night with the 3 cats in Les Cerisier.
So this is us on moving in day! Of course it was not all with out a hitch! the solar panels that will heat our hot water were up until the day before we moved stuck on a ship off the coast of Spain! thank fully our plumber managed to install them the day we moved in and boy do they work well! Free hot water! And of course good old France Telecom! having assured us it will only take 10 days to connect us they now say up to 2 months - unbelievable!
Well we have now been living in our gite for about 10 days and it really feels like home! only last night we sat out on the terrace over looking the construction site with a bottle of Bollinger - vintage at that too!! We know how to live!!
We were celebrating the departure of our first guests in Les Cypres who have re booked for two weeks next summer, which is quite an endorsement!
Meanwhile there is much activity on site! Since June 17th the weather has been very hot, 30 degrees and above most days so the builders now start at 6am working until 2pm. There is no better incentive in getting out of bed than a bunch of guys banging plus various machines going past your bedroom window!
The major work over the last 10 days is the building of the terrace walls which once done will be filled and compacted. These will then lead to the gardens and swimming pool.
And as for the other house! its coming along! has windows, no tiles on the roof yet and no internal walls but its coming along!
And finally the cats are loving it, curious yes, very but so far they all seem ok!.
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