A dream villa and a “maison nickel”

My day usually starts with coffee and dog food - well not exactly for me, I put on the kettle to make coffee while our bouncing dogs are in their feeding frenzy - this is usually around 8:30 - at the same time a couple of computers are grunting into life as emails are crumpshing into my mailboxes.

Telephones seem such iron-age technology I tend to ignore them, but this morning I found myself answering the horrible things (actually Carole did) and agreeing to see a couple of houses, one in Fouzilhon and one in St Thibery , these towns are near our home and as I had a headache I went out to see them

I am glad I did - both are among the best I have seen this year - the Maison Vigneron in St Thibery is absolutely “nickel” a great word meaning ” of the highest standard” - and I am not talking French sweaty armpit standards, but something better. It is not a grand maison - but nor is the price - aircon, double glazing, a small courtyard/garden/ private terrace and in a classic street in a traditional town - this is what it is all about, living in France.

The other is a modern villa in a wondrous village in Languedoc, Fouzilhon, ask me for the map reference it is too late to look it up now, there are not many modern villas left like this, because as soon as they are built a veritable acne of other munchin horrors infest the adjacent building plots - but not in this case - this is the “light at the end of the world” and no more infestations will blight this villa or the views.

I am happy to be enthusiastic for a change over a simple thing like a lump of tile, stone and concrete on a corner of mud.

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