The picture on the right is the village,and the one on the left is the field opposite the house, sunflowers are not few and far between here.
Whilst the agent went to get the key, we decided to explore the village. There were only 3 houses in our road, but as they also had large gardens the property was not overlooked in any direction. We noticed that the road at the top of ours was called "rue des écoles", (schools road), so we had a wander down that way, hoping it would lead to the local school, and sure enough it did. I guess the name of the road was a bit of a giveaway! This was great, the school at the end of the road how perfect is that.
A bit further up the road was "rue mairie", (Mayors road), and yep, you've guessed it, this was where the Mayors office was. There appeared to be a bit of a theme going on here. We soon found the most important part of the village, the bar which, thankfully, was not in "rue du bar", but in "rue de st etienne" on account of the fact that the road led to a village called st etienne! Alot of thought must have gone into road naming in France! Anyway, we had a quick slurp in good old french fashion, and went back to the house to meet the agent, who was already waiting for us, (we only had one drink, honestly).
The inside was old, old fashioned and dirty. The kids all said "yuk, it's horrible, there's spiders everywhere!", but us grownups knew it was perfect. OK, so it was old fashioned, but it could be up-dated. The downstairs, after a good clean up, was habitable, of a fashion. There was nothing upstairs though, it used to be a hay loft, and there weren't any windows, just holes. But it was large, large enough to put in 4 bedrooms, an office and 2 bathrooms. Yes, we could picture it all........
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