Schengen and 90/180 day access restriction for UK, second-home owners.
Schengen is an agreement between a number of countries, some are members of the EU and some are not.
France
Buying a second home abroad is exciting!
Within thirty-six hours of my first visit to Esperaza in 2007, I had bought an old butcher’s shop, on an old street in an old town.
The Toques et Clochers Wine Festival;
The annual Toques et Clochers wine festival is a real treat I realise that I have a lifestyle that borders on the unusual, and for that I am grateful. I am able to wander, see odd and disparate places, meet fascinating people and gather a treasure trove of useless facts with which I can pepper […]
Somewhere in France
It is a strange feeling, but I don’t actually know where I am. I am in France, that much is for sure, but exactly where eludes me. It was dark and raining last night when we stopped; the first hotel was full, and the second, apparently called the Hotel Ageris Orleans, had two rooms left. […]
Toques et Clochers
Well, it is pretty well impossible to describe the local wine festival, but I shall give it a try. Firstly, some history. The Sieur d’Arques winery in Limoux has been making a lot of wine for a very, very long time; sparkling wine has been around the region since 1531. Much of it wonderful, some […]
The Languedoc: Of Cathars and Wine Festivals
For reasons that I am still unable to quite explain, I bought an old butcher’s shop in Esperaza, a small market-town in the upper Aude Valley a couple of years ago, and try to get back here as often as possible; it is not exactly simple, living as I do in Winnipeg, but I do […]