{"id":3171,"date":"2012-01-25T20:54:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T20:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2012-01-25T21:00:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T21:00:19","slug":"yet-more-dordogne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/yet-more-dordogne\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet more Dordogne"},"content":{"rendered":"

While in France in the first part of this month I naturally had a look around the local area where I would be living and also viewed a few potential home purchases. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I actually did find a house that I do want to purchase and my plan is to return to the Dordogne by road this time, as early as next week if possible, to view it again and discuss purchase terms with the estate agent. The reason for my apparent haste is that on Monday last I received an offer for my house in the UK, which I accepted and which would make it possible for my plan to come to fruition in as little as 6 weeks or so! I could never have anticipated that things might move so quickly \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n

Because of this and because of a childishly superstitious idea that to show pics and talk about the house might somehow put all of this in jeopardy, I won’t be showing any until I get back after my next visit when hopefully everything will be more firmly in place. Until then I’ll just show some pics of the village, called Plazac, that the house is close to, and some shots of two other properties that I saw besides the Perigord cottage that I showed in the video in the previous post. <\/p>\n

There are a few British and other nationalities in Plazac but it’s still predominantly French, which is how I like it. The village has a large medieval church and castle at the top of a cobbled hill at its centre. The church was built in the 12th century and used to be the seat of the bishops of Perigueux. The first pic is taken from just outside the church looking down the slope towards the village.<\/p>\n

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The next shot was taken from further down the slope and shows what used to be the main street of the village from right to left. The village buildings are all either old or very old \ud83d\ude42 and the old main street presents a charming walk if you like such things, which I do of course \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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The next pic is of La Marjolaine (The Marjoram) the village watering hole which is on the main road that now passes through the village. When I was introduced as a friend of Bob’s I was greeted with the customary kiss on both cheeks and made to feel very welcome. I speak pretty good French, which hopefully will get even better, and that always helps as far as the French are concerned, who are very effusive in their praise for your language skills!<\/p>\n

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So that’s a very brief tour of what if all goes to plan will become my new home. Now some shots of two properties that I viewed but turned down. The first two are of a converted stone barn in a similar style to the home I want to buy but which was rather tatty, had not been converted to a very high quality and was, in my opinion, totally over-priced! I’ll just leave it at that \ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n

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And finally, two pics of what was a very ancient and quirky property, lots of property for the money actually, but which would never have been suitable for me. The estate agent said that it is probably medieval in origin. The reason is that in those times, before roof tiles began to be commonly used, the peasants made their roofs from carefully piled stones, and this property still has some around the base of the roof of what was the original part of the building. I was quite prepared to believe him!<\/p>\n

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So that’s it for now and I’ll have more Dordogne news when I get back from my planned visit, hopefully next week. In the meantime I received another bit of good news today – MYRO’s permit was issued this afternoon so I could well be flying it at the weekend. But not for too long though as now I have far too many other things to do connected with my move to France, plus I’ll also need to start thinking about saving my Euros for when I get there \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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