If you read “Finding a Home in France, Part One”, you may remember that we expected to close on our apartment purchase in April. But France is full of surprises! On March 7, just over three months after our offer, the apartment was ours. The closing was...
When my husband Phil and I moved to France, our plan was to buy a car after a couple of months. We knew we wanted an electric car, and not being fans of new cars, we wanted to buy used. I began researching online in February 2022, only to find that used EVs were rare,...
When my husband Phil and I moved to Montpellier on January 22, 2022, the day after I retired from my U.S. healthcare career, we had a rough plan: wait a month or two before buying a car, make learning French our top priority, and rent a furnished apartment for the...
Recently my husband and I took the longest trip of our lives—a 15-day transatlantic cruise, followed by almost three weeks in the United States. It was the trip of a lifetime, and we loved every minute of it. As we spent time with people on the ship, American...
When we decided to move to France, we knew our first priority (after finding a place to live and buying groceries!) would be learning to speak French. My husband Phil had taken a beginner’s class years ago, and he used Babbel before we moved, but he was still a...
It would be a slight exaggeration to say I moved to France for the food; however, food indeed played a part in the decision my husband and I made to spend our retirement years in France.Now that we’ve lived here almost six months, our choice has been well...
‘Les vendanges’ (grape harvest) time is here, and the theme for this month’s blog articles is wine! In this blog article we speak to Daniel Lambert from Daniel Lambert Wines. A small company with big ideas, Daniel Lambert Wines is one of the...
This article has been written by Sandy Shroyer for Renestance as a guest blogger. You can find follow her adventures in her blog at https://www.roaminretirement.com/After spending my entire life in the United States, primarily Oklahoma (born and raised), Texas (where...
This article has been written by Sandy Shroyer for Renestance as a guest blogger. You can find follow her adventures in her blog at https://www.roaminretirement.com/If you read about the kindness of French strangers a few weeks ago, you may recall our first trip to...
This article has been written by Sandy Shroyer for Renestance as a guest blogger. You can find follow her adventures in her blog at https://www.roaminretirement.com/.Before we moved to France, I read a blog post by Renestance about bringing some of your home country,...
