This is about how we gave up our day jobs and moved lock, stock and barrel to Brittany to set up and run our own holiday business. We bought a property with a 16th century manor house, one OK gite and the potential for another which had a roof, 4 walls and 3 trees growing inside it. Our epic struggles with French bureaucracy (they invented that word) and the fun we had but also overcoming numerous challenges on the way.
Views: 10 | Enquiries: 0I have had what might be called a portfolio career. After leaving school I briefly trained as a quantity surveyor but as a young woman in a man’s world that defeated me so I became a student nurse. Having qualified I went to Berlin for a year as a nanny and on my return went to college for secretarial training. This became the starting point of my career in education becoming the Head of Faculty of Business and Management Studies in a large Further and Higher Education College until I accepted redundancy when it merged with another college. I then taught in secondary school for a few years until we decided to sell up, go to France and set up and run a holiday business which we did for 9 years. Returning to England we did some property renovation, buying, doing up and selling on 5 properties before settling near Bristol. Since then I became a town councillor for 5 years and was Chairman for 2 of those years.
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