From Cannes or Bust!28th June 2002. Property Letter no 10. We are back in the Cape, and very happy to be here again, reunited with Adam and Alice. We’re supposed to be moving into our new house this weekend, which we have been looking forward to so much, bringing to an end 10 months of living out of… Read more
Property Letter no 9. As and when I have a chance to write a few words relevant to our French Property venture, I do. I was encouraged yesterday because Vicky and I had decided that returning to Cannes for just two nights we would take a small hotel rather than stay with our friends in… Read more
Briefly, we return to Cannes and Nice on Monday until Wednesday. There are some apartments for us to see in Cannes, but also in Nice, and I enclose an attachment of a studio in Nice that we will see as soon as we arrive. I enclose it because it gives you an idea, and we… Read more
We are rushing and finishing off details in order to leave for Italy tomorrow to return our hire car (the tinyest thing we’ve ever driven) and spend a night with James and Kate, before flying to London on Friday. We will return to Cannes on Monday 17th, first early morning flight, and then to London… Read more
The Cote d’ Azur stretches from Menton on the French / Italian border, through Monaco, Nice and Cannes to St Tropez in the West. It can be covered is less than an hour and a half drive, end to end, on the A8 motorway. It stretches from the beautiful Mediterranean to the mountains, a narrow… Read more
We hope you don’t mind receiving these letters addressed to you as a group. We are so pushed for time, and as things are now, Vicky is typing this on her lap while Guy drives along the motorway! We have just seen properties today, numerous, mostly a waste of time; but two of them have… Read more
1st June 2002 Writing that date….what a thought, I should be sowing my irrigated seedbeds today. I’m going to keep this as brief as possible, but let you all know exactly where we are to date and give you a feeling of what we’re doing. Confirmations to date : Guy and Vicky want +/- 1… Read more