February 2006 As the estate agent walked away, we looked at each other and said "this'll do". We reckoned we'd looked at over 200 houses from the English channel to the Pyrenees, we only had 2 months left in our rented gite, the house had potential, but far more importantly, the facilities for the horses were almost perfect, with a huge stone barn, an open hangar where they could come and go, and gently sloping fields with established meadow grass. | The clincher was walking around the perimeter of the land, and seeing all the waymarkers indicating walking tracks - GR48 in red and white, yellow and blue indicating local circular routes. Or was it the strawberry and lemon tarts we bought from the village bakery.... |