What made you fall in love with this part of France?
The relaxed pace of life: it can be frustrating when you are used to a 24/7 world but here businesses close at lunchtimes and on Sundays, people work to live, they don’t live to work; and I think that’s a healthier way of viewing life.
The architecture is also gorgeous round here – beautiful tuffeau stone, slate rooves, turrets and wrought iron twirls – just my thing!
Any top tips that you learned when searching for your house?
We only visited five or six properties, in the end, and went with our instinct – this one just kept us awake at night with excitement and although we knew it wasn’t the most logical purchase, it was the one we loved.