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Before you know it, another week has passed. A week in which everything went as normal as possible. The sun was shining, but unfortunately has now been displ...

As of this writing, it has been 4.5 months that we live here in France. Now this does not seem long, but the months are going fast. The beautiful weather, an...

In the first months we came here, we had a lot of rain. I could barely imagine that we would ever get one day that there would be no rain, or that we would t...

I don't even know when it's Easter. Is that important at the moment? Back in the days when the girls were still in primary school I knew the Easter holidays....

We are now halfway through the first period of the lock-down in France. I must say: quite a few measures are being taken here. It is only allowed on the stre...

Two weeks. Two weeks in which the world has been turned upside down. Yes I said I wouldn't write about corona. So much has been said about it. But since coun...

Yes, another blog. Not much happened last week, although I tried to connect with the French system of registering some important matters, which is a journey ...

You get up in the morning with the expectation that the day will be a normal day. You make plans, whatever you want to implement on the same day. And then, s...

As Bob Dylan his song is saying: the answer is. But for now, here are the trees, the leaves, the birds, everything is blowin' in the wind. The Ciara storm ha...

After our days of heating problems, I can now say that it has become nice and warm in the house. Fortunately, because the sky in Normandy shows a lot of clou...

Well, I promised to write a blog way sooner, but, we have had a very 'dramatic' period. It all started more than a week ago. Yes, we would have started. The ...

Here we are, a little more than a month we live in France, and now for since a day we finally have our own connection to the outside world via the internet. ...

When I started blogging about our adventure to France about two months ago, I didn't think I'd be writing in the Netherlands for the last time so quickly: ju...

With just a week to go, before the move is a fact, there are still a few things that need to be done. We go everywhere and while we enjoy the scenery, the sa...

The calendar becomes shorter. From now on just over two weeks and then we go to France. In the house you have to look for things that have to be put somewher...

Still 3,5 weeks to go and that means we now have to deal with the pets. To be allowed to take them to France, there are a few mandatory items: For example, t...

Sometimes there are people or circumstances that are engraved in your memory. So it is with my mother. In December it is 6 years ago that she died. On the da...

Well, finally we have set a date for our move to France. Everything is going fast right now, although in every room and attic there are still items that has ...

12 years of collecting stuff. 12 years of using everything that was available... Now, with boxes everywhere, all those 12 years passes through your hands: pi...

We have made our way through the offers of various moving companies. For sure we become a kind of expert. Where one person goes through your house very easil...