Manny's Blog

Sharing our French adventure as we live and work and renovate our forever home in the Haute Loire.

All posts in: “La Source”

The Summer of ’22

September 2022 – it’s been a jam-packed roller coaster of a year so far! My sister Sasha got married; I turned 60 and caught Covid; Oscar turned one and was Christened and and on the same day (June 5th) we lost Joe’s much-loved Dad, Dave. So the year has involved quite a few trips to…

Summer’s been a long time coming

(May 9th) I’m writing from a top floor room in a cosy Parisian Hotel – the windows open, curtains billowing in the warm breeze, and the soothing sounds of the city evoking distant memories of city-dwelling many moons ago! Curfew still in place from 7pm, so hardly any sounds of folks on the street, but…

La Source – build it and they will come!

We have our 3 stars from the Tourist Office… we have our first guests arriving in a few days, through Airbnb, and we are fully booked until mid-March with a summer three-week booking too. Honestly we couldn’t be more thrilled! We’ve given it so much love and attention, and I have to admit to having…