by Anita Weststrate | Nov 29, 2024 | General
Sliding wheels For the big move, we looked for a removal company and found a local French firm with a good price-quality ratio: loading in Horst on Wednesday morning and unloading in Le Charaix on Friday. It was November 2024. That Wednesday morning we had set the...
by Anita Weststrate | Nov 29, 2024 | General
Integration from day one On 15 October 2024, it was finally time to go to the notary and get the keys. When we signed the preliminary deed of sale in July, we spent almost 3 hours at the notary’s office, and this time it took ‘only’ an hour and a half. Both times we...
by Anita Weststrate | Oct 31, 2024 | General
There is no goodbye Not everyone is happy with our decision to move to France and this affects us too. How do we deal with this? This aspect becomes an important part of our process, even if you can’t see it from the outside. Looking back, we can see that, in...
by Anita Weststrate | Oct 30, 2024 | General
The ultimate teamwork begins Based on our decision to go to France for our ‘mission’, the obvious choice was to look for a house in the Cathar region, near Rennes-le-Chateau and Carcassonne. No sooner said than done. We soon found a house we liked: big...
by Anita Weststrate | Oct 29, 2024 | General
How the decision was made to emigrate to France For those who have known us for some time, our move to France did not come as a complete surprise. Rob had been working in France for years: first for a French company in the Benelux and since 2007 for a Dutch company in...
