Yesterday was a day that epitomized what we hoped France would be like. We got up to a cool fall morning with some rain that ended by 10am, so the day was fresh. We hopped on the quiet and half empty tram (a novelty in a city with 45,000 university students) to go downtown to
We’ve made it back to Angers from our trip to the SF Bay Area and are looking ahead with excitement to what comes next for us this fall as the seasons change and we seek new opportunities to further integrate with the community and culture of Angers, France. Here’s what we’ve got planned for the
The French have elevated COMPLAINING to an art form, a competitive sport even; at a minimum, it’s a favorite pastime. Don’t get me wrong, we love France, but there are definitely things here that have tested our patience and made us grumbly at times. We’ve reached the phase in our time in France that is
We’ve spent a lot of time in the last couple of weeks prepping our new rental house before we move in. A friend of ours says “if a place looks clean, it may be clean, but if it looks dirty, it’s filthy!” That adage certainly applies to rental houses. This one looked pretty clean, but
I set out for a walk yesterday morning while Greg was out biking. I captured this photo from a bridge over the Maine River that runs through the middle of Angers before connecting with the Loire River farther south. You can see the Angers castle in the distance and that gorgeous church tower in the
A few weeks ago, we wrote about having secured an apartment for the next few months on a month-to-month lease while we searched for longer-term housing. This was great news after so much Airbnb and hotel hopping for the past few months! And the 1-bedroom, 1-bath furnished apartment is certainly better than where we’ve been,
SUCCESS!!! The Château d’Angers will be the view from the kitchen window of our new apartment for the next five months! Granted, it will be from a longer distance, at an angle, and we won’t be able to see the grounds from where we are, but all the same, there will be a castle in