Amendment to Plan

Stage1:
Selling our house in Poole - Completed
Purchasing the house in France - Completed
finding somewhere to rent in the UK - Completed
Stage 2:
saving up so that we can survive until the B&B can sustain us - Okay this may not happen given the new timeframe...
modernise the french house to create a home - Brought forward
network and establish a B&B 4 motorcyclists - Brought forward

Stage 3:
give up work in the UK - Handed my Notice in 5 March 07 - Leave 1 Sept 07
move lock stock barrel to france
enjoy our life riding and entertaining motorcyclists.

Full Steam Ahead!

Well we have upped the pace a little, after returning from France we had a couple of eye openers on how life should be lived and not wasted...

One of my colleagues asked for time off as his wife had just been diagnosed with a "C" lump in her breast and they were going to operate to remove it and as many Lymph nodes as they could saying how lucky they had spotted it at this early stage, he was also worried about a lump in his testicles...

Wendy then had an Accident in her MX5 being rear ended she was okay a little shocked and bruised, but then a couple of days later she was admitted into Poole Hospital with symptoms not dissimilar to a "Heart Attack" which turned out to be Liver related and the Dr's had/have no idea what the cause was.

So I have handed my notice in at work (I am on a 6 month notice period) so we will now be moving lock stock and barrel over to France by 1st September.

We have now taken possession of the House

We went over to France on the 14th Feb and traveled down to Treignac on the 15th Feb where we met Catherine (the Imobilier rep) who walked us round the house and arranged for the owner to come up and show us where all the water and electric meters were and how to use the appliances such as the Oil Fired Central heating system...

On the 16th we opened a bank account, sorted out buildings and contents insurance and went along to the Notaire to sign for the keys and have the contracts explained and Whola after a busy day we were officially property owners in France...