Three Months in a French Villa - You Can Do It Too!

The mention of spending time in a French villa brings to mind so many intriguing thoughts - of white plaster-covered villa walls, grape vines climbing on a trellis outside a lace-curtained window, glasses of red wine being consumed on a sunny afternoon in a pretty garden, eating slices of bread smothered in lashings of olive butter. The images go on and on in one's mind and one is tempted to say &quote;Damn it - I want to do it - I want to live in a French villa and experience life at its best - even if it can only be for the limit of three months&quote;. This is how we felt, so we started from scratch, knowing nothing of rural France, except that we wanted a villa in a centuries-old town. It was just the most wonderful three months of our lives. As we could not speak French, it was a difficulty, as no French person in Aubusson could speak English. But what fun it was trying to be understood!