Aici sèn pla

This blog started as a daily record to mark our fifth year at Segala. Daily it did not turn out to be but after the year I have decided to continue as an occasional diary - after all I do still like it here or "aici sen pla".


Its our fifth year living at Segala. I have decided to try to mark this year with a daily post ( some days it will be just a photo) of our life over the year. I have trawled my brain for witty titles without success then I remembered the slogan on the T shirts at the fête in Espinas in the summer.


A friend translated it from the occitan for us. It seems to mean something along the lines of I like it here. Very apt for us, "I like it here " is a refrain we use to each other at least daily so that's the plan - Aici sén pla - a year of daily musings from a contented retired expat who thinks herself damned lucky every single day.


Wednesday, 1 April 2015

such good times




Pavillon - we will miss you but it really is time someone else enjoyed your unique charms. Today Trevor met with another estate agent and our little holiday retreat, bought in 2005, is back on the market. It is something of a quirky choice for a buyer ( as it was for us in 2005), no electricity, tendency for the river to get too intimate, prone to burglaries but we had some of the best holidays of our lives there and it is most definitely the reason we fell in love with this particular corner of France.









Last year we thought we had  buyers - a couple from Toulouse, one of them a keen fisherman, told us "consider it sold", they seemed to love it as much as we had when we first saw it. They returned with their kids the following weekend who unfortunately did not seem to regard it as a suitable investment of their inheritance.







In 2010 it became our only home for 3 months after we took the plunge and sold up our home in England and put our furniture into storage while we continued the search for our new permanent French home. We had a great summer!







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