Our village, Montblanc, is slap-bang in the center of Languedoc just a few miles from the Mediterranean – it is typical of a confident, prosperous farming village in Southern France and for centuries has been a working community. It is much the same today as it has been for the last couple of thousand years.
Building [...]
One of the joys of living here in the South of France is that my mother can live with us in her own private apartment in Villa Roquette. She has always been a keen gardener and we are proud of her results in the [...]
An interesting feature of many old houses in France is the wonderful ironwork, railings and metalwork decorations used in houses.
The last big job (almost) I plan for Villa Roquette is the front terrace to, what will be, our new front ground floor apartment – this project took a big step forward this week when I [...]
Inspired by Christo, I have decided to wrap up our home in blue plastic – I only had enough to do about a tenth of the front of the house, here is a picture of Villa Roquette gift wrapped for you……
Villa Roquette Gift Wrapped
It is covering the opening for the work on out front ground [...]
Since moving to Languedoc; in the South of France, over 15 years ago, Carole and I have offered b&B and apartment rentals, firstin out home in Nizas and now in our home in Montblanc near Pezenas and Agde.
When we sold our Nizas home and bought our home in Montblanc, we were able to use the years [...]
Sunday mornings I usually make coffee and fetch bread from the bakers just a few yards from our front door. Today is Valentines day so Carole will get chocolates with her coffee, Sunday paper, fresh bread and jam in bed this morning.
I have blogged a few times about the pleasure of being able to have warm [...]
On my blog at Twiku.com I put a jigsaw puzzle of an image of our village – this has proved very popular with my friends on Facebook so I have put one on this site.
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Our home is ready to receive you. We have worked hard for two years to make our home in the South of France ready to offer vacation apartments and bed and breakfast in a classic Maison de Maitre by the center of a medieval French village near the Mediterranean.
To launch our service, we offer a once [...]
I have often tried to keep a regular and up-to-date news post about local news, especially the latest travel information for people coming to our home.
There are many Internet sites with pages of information about weather, flights and rail services. To add this t oa web page is a full time job, using syndicated feeds also [...]