It's taken a while and I'm greyer than before!

Its been a long stressful slog to get to the point where it's even safe to risk doing this blog in case of tempting fate.

Back in January P and I wen to France to look at a vineyard that P had found on the internet. We've been looking for somewhere in France for a considerable amount of time, about 4 years or so and we've looked at about 30 or so a couple of which we almost brought.

The Vineyard had been on the market for 6 months and had come down in price and typically now had lots of interest in it.

We went, we saw, we liked....

We put in an offer and it was accepted. I have felt sick and stressed pretty much continuously since.

The amount of paperwork involved in a french mortgage application is astonishing!! I had a serious falling out with the horrible woman at my bank and am now a big fan of filing things in a sensible and organised fashion.

To cut a long and VERY boring story short our mortgage has been approved, the currency exchange rate fixed and short of SAFER putting a spanner in the works it's ours!

Yikes.