White Shutters is ours!

I am back dating the blog, originally started as Blue Shutters, we are keeping the shutters white, and so White Shutters we now are!!

The buying of our Holiday Rental / Gite/ House/ Maison/ Cottage has been fraught over the course of 2008. This is the third house we tried to buy, very nearly failed again, but here we are at last with our own French Dream. The compromis de vente was signed in October, as sterling plummeted and interest rates fell and the credit crunch took hold big time. By Christmas sterling was 1.02 euros to the pound. However, a week before the acte de vente, we finally knew we were signing after all and so we beacme proud owners on Friday 16th January 2009.

Our initial postcard was drawn up with only pictures from the agent to use. We now have just over four months to get our house ready for the summer season. There are lots of plans, as we have rented many gites in France, and so have some idea of what we like and what we don't like on holiday.