Wednesday 18 February 2009

It's Ours!!!!!!!!


We did it!! You can just about see it all through the trees.

We now own the Hammeau! Was a great day. Signing was pleasant, 5 of them and us of course. I was strangely nervous! The notaire was fast and efficient and luckily we had not forgotten to take any important documents or such like! Took about an hour in all with a celebratory coffee with the vendors at the cafe next door.


We then went headed to a local creperie for lunch with the husbands brother and his wife. We had lovely savoury galettes and cider then off to the hammeau and popped opened the fizz to peruse our new habitat. The previous owners were there clearing the wood and the junk ( 10yrs of unwanted rubbish as the place had been empty that long!)even though officially not supposed to be there but they are lovely people and will be our neighbours so we did not kick up a fuss and there really was no need.

Next stop was to visit the local foie gras producer ( I know some of you may not agree with this but my brother in law loves the stuff) and to follow was a whistle stop visit to see the U boat stations that survived the bombing at Lorient. We have been trying to give our visitors a good overview of the area in 2 days. Quite tiring but alot of fun had by all! That evening we were off out again for a delicious and indulgent celebratory meal in nearby Baud.


The work started today with unloading of some furniture to empty the van in order that all the necessary tools, tile slates etc could be accommodated. Let us hope the weather holds for the roof repair 1st phase as it has been glorious of late ande the bird song has been delightful.

3 comments:

Sandy said...

Congratulations!!

Ksam said...

Félicitations, that's very exciting!!

MichieMole said...

Thank you
Am indeed now getting excited and pouring over house magazines.
Interior downstair partition wall knocked down already!