{"id":1060,"date":"2022-03-09T17:24:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T15:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2023-02-09T16:36:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T14:36:12","slug":"moving-to-th-south-of-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/moving-to-th-south-of-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving to the South of France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After 17 years at our beloved watermill in the Southwest of France, on the 2nd<\/sup> of January 2022, we packed a hired van and moved 200km east to the Corbi\u00e8res in the true South of France. Read on to discover what we are planning, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It all happened quite quickly in the end.\u00a0 We decided to put our house on the market in May last year after some major health problems forced us to reassess our lives.\u00a0 Much as we loved our house and our life in Escanecrabe, it was time to downsize and attempt to make our lives a little easier.\u00a0 Well, that was the plan!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first property we viewed was something Gary had his eye on in the Corbi\u00e8res.  I wasn\u2019t overly enthused the first time he showed it to me.  I was envisaging buying a 3-bed house with maybe an apartment, a pool would be a bonus, some land and on the edge of a small town, something much smaller and manageable.  The property he showed me was a 9-bedroomed old restaurant\/hotel on a main road with no immediate neighbours.  It was not what I had in mind at all.  However, I could see the landscape around it was beautiful \u2013 it was set in a rocky gorge and had a river running through the 1.2 hectares of land.  So, I agreed to visit it and, to cut a long story short, seven months later it was ours!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We have lots of plans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the exciting things about the house for us (apart from its spectacular views) is that has the ideal space for running courses.  Gary was a lecturer in horticulture in the UK and I was an IT trainer, so it\u2019s always been a plan for us to run courses and teach again.  We ran a few residential gardening courses in the early days at the Moulin, but it was difficult to manage as we had two teenagers, two children under five at the time and another on the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Courses and Workshops<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As the property used to be a Hotel\/Restaurant, there are two large rooms and a large kitchen on the ground floor which will be ideal for training, meetings and even yoga or other exercise classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have created Gardening in France<\/a> and are running short residential courses and workshops.\u00a0 We will be offering a variety of topics such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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