Clé France

Email from client on 3rd November 2015

Evening David,

Well since I last "spoke to you back in January - our lives have completely changed. From April until August things were manic and the way it worked, the office closed where I worked at the end of July and we sold our house in the UK  on the 31st July too!! All very crazy but exciting too. We were homeless in the UK for 2 days, so had to rough it in a hotel then we came over on the 3rd August full time. We had hired a van mid July and brought over the bulk of the furniture, brought more with us when we came over and the last few bits are in a storage unit for now in the UK.

Mixing in with French neighbours - 

We have now been here three months and we are loving every minute. We are getting on well with our French neighbours and have had aperitifs or coffee with them and returned the favour. It is helping our French immensely and we love the fact it is all French - we are in France and want to speak French and the people really do warm to you. Every Wednesday we have a lady who comes round in a van with bread, and various other epicerie items and I meet my elderly neighbour at the van and get the kiss on each cheek.

Learning French -

We do our research and find things out for ourselves, which has sometimes been much easier than others have implied - proof of this was getting our phone line and Internet sorted at SFR, all done in french with the assistant and we took all the necessary documents as I checked it out online first - we were in, sorted and leaving within 15  minutes.

We are taking french lessons at the local AIKB with a lovely french lady and we are amazed how many people we have met don't make the effort to improve their french or make the effort to chat with their french neighbours.

Dont spend the rest of your life saying "what if" -

Anyway, life is good and we seem to have amazed friends and family by following our hearts and making the move. At the end of the day - you have to just do it, so we dont spend the rest of our lives saying "what if"

The next few months will hopefully see us sorting our carte vitale, registering for work and transferring our car and van over to French plates.

Hope everything is going well for you and Sharon.

Kind regards, Karen.

Karen bought a house in France with Cle France in the Cotes d'Armor department of the sunshine region of Brittany.

We arranged everything of course and made sur Karen was fully informed of the buying process right through to completion day in 2013 and beyond.

It is nice to keep in touch with our clients even more than 2 years later, it is that personal and professional service that makes everything worthwhile.