How it all started
This blog is owned by Caroline and Tim Parsons and will document our dream so our friends and family can follow along, all comments welcome! While it is our dream, both our extended families and friends have been so supportive and keen to get involved, especially to date my brother Mark shortly followed by our son Daniel.
Our dream to have a complete change of life style, after working in the corporate world non-stop for 35 years, was triggered by several events coinciding, none of which we actually planned.
The first event chronologically was health related, I was diagnosed with bowel cancer in March 2018 and underwent treatment in Switzerland for 13 months. While on medical leave, it was announced on January 3rd 2019 that Bristol-Myers-Squib was buying Celgene who I had worked for since 2006.
In parallel we had been watching the "Escape to the Chateau" programs which appealed very much as a lifestyle we admired. Our spoken French was pretty good after 20 years living and working in Switzerland, we both are not afraid of hard work having renovated several homes and we would be running our own business, all in a beautiful country whose food and drink we love.
This all culminated in early Spring 2019 to an evening chat at which the crazy idea of us buying a château/manoir took all of 30 seconds for us to agree our new life, ideally with gîtes, B&B (chambres d'hôtes) and events such as parties, weddings, etc.
This lead to us visiting many properties around Easter 2019 to the south-western area of France. With a hectic schedule of 10 or so properties to view, it was ultimately the first property we saw which we fell in love with and bought.
Our dream to have a complete change of life style, after working in the corporate world non-stop for 35 years, was triggered by several events coinciding, none of which we actually planned.
The first event chronologically was health related, I was diagnosed with bowel cancer in March 2018 and underwent treatment in Switzerland for 13 months. While on medical leave, it was announced on January 3rd 2019 that Bristol-Myers-Squib was buying Celgene who I had worked for since 2006.
In parallel we had been watching the "Escape to the Chateau" programs which appealed very much as a lifestyle we admired. Our spoken French was pretty good after 20 years living and working in Switzerland, we both are not afraid of hard work having renovated several homes and we would be running our own business, all in a beautiful country whose food and drink we love.
This all culminated in early Spring 2019 to an evening chat at which the crazy idea of us buying a château/manoir took all of 30 seconds for us to agree our new life, ideally with gîtes, B&B (chambres d'hôtes) and events such as parties, weddings, etc.
This lead to us visiting many properties around Easter 2019 to the south-western area of France. With a hectic schedule of 10 or so properties to view, it was ultimately the first property we saw which we fell in love with and bought.
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