I’m so excited I could pee my pants (or maybe that is just being nearly 29 weeks pregnant!) but we are heading back for Another Year in France in 2015! The tickets are booked and paid and plans are being made!
We have so much drawing us to Europe at the moment. We have one new baby just born into my family by my lovely sister Lucy and her hubby Neil and brother James and Naomi due just a few weeks after my blue bundle! How can we stay on the other side of the world with all that happening? Being able to see more of our parents and all the family is always a massive drawcard, even more so now dad can’t travel to visit us in Oz.
Other than the family, there are other reasons too. Being bi-lingual is such a gift and we’d always hoped to head back for a year at some point to get the kids bi-lingual (again in Josh’s case). With the new baby on the way we realised that maternity leave would stretch further in Europe than Oz and be a fantastic opportunity to enable us to live some of the dreams, see more of the family and friends over there, enrich the kids and do some cool renovating again!
Can you guess where we are planning to head? Yep the Dordogne! This area is so stunning with so much rich history, gorgeous architecture and fantastic activities on and off the river and quite a few big towns offering good facilities. When we first moved to France way back in 1999 it was out of our price range and as a result we didn’t really look there and of course ended up in the Aude. These days there are bargains to be found with a lot of property on the market, we are pretty excited by what we have seen in our on-line searches. We still love the Aude and our friends there but the Dordogne is that much further north, making it closer to the UK for us to visit and to be visited without ending up too far north for my sensitive Aussie grey sky meter!!
We hit Europe early next year so hope to find something and be installed by spring! Watch this space for more updates, I’m hoping to do a lot more blogging as we get closer and certainly next year. I’m even in the process of upgrading my camera so I can get some amazing shots of it all!