Building site Before After As you can see, much has changed here in little time. The excavation lasted in total 5 days, due to three days of jack hammering solid rock, and produced a lot of material, some of it when to the dump (old concrete slabs and tree roots), some of it was transported to another site (mostly stones), and the rest stayed on site (mostly clean dirt for fill and a lot of beautiful reddish stones). Mike is now busy making the wooden forms that will hold the

Months are passing by but there is little rest here in Aulon. There is good and bad news in this post so lets start with the worst. In...

In January in France, the Epiphany is seriously celebrated. Although the Epiphany is on January 6th, we eat the traditional "King cake" ...

I do not know for you, but for me 2024 came with much ups and downs and did not flow as smooth as other years did. We can call that "the...

Wow, time flies ! And lots have changed here so here we go, no time to loose now ;) We started the gabion wall in the summer of 2019...

When you work on a big renovation project like ours, it is normal to loose interest and to leave some loose ends behind. The project is...

This year has brought lots of visitors at La Peyrère. For this reason, we have been constantly improving the comfort of the living space...

Our last post ended up with the departure of Mike's family mid-May. All was well and we had been working really hard to make new changes...

Spring is the time where lots happens in our lives but this year LOTS has happened !!! Like I mentioned in our last post, we were...

2023 has started quietly and we have been slowing down the renovation and gardening work. This feeling of "numbness" can probably...