The Travertine is done but I still need help! Where can I find a trades person in France!!! Plus a trip to Cahors…and much more!
Welcome everybody Welcome to life in rural France it’s a rainy day today very cloudy and it’s been rainy actually for um a few days now which gave me the uh opportune time to work in the kitchen if you watched uh last week’s episode you know that I started the travertin in the
Kitchen well it is finished folks and uh I’m going to show you it went uh really well uh certainly not like it did the first time I did it in the other section of the house uh this time it went really smoothly my back’s paying for it a
Little bit but um I’m really happy with the results so uh let’s go and have a look going through here and there you have it yeah we just love this Stone uh and I think it’s made a big Improvement in the kitchen and we put the trim uh on the
Threshold and um yeah I think it’s made the made the kitchen look quite nice quite better than the tile that was there before which was this stuff and um I think it’s a little bit more in keeping with um natural elements which we like we like
Uh wood Stone things like that so um yeah very happy with it now if you do decide to come to France and you buy a renovation project doing many of those jobs yourself is going to go a long way a very long way but you’re going to find
That many of those jobs you can’t do you’re going to have to call a trades person in and that is where we have been I’m very frustrated now it could be just our North American impatience uh coming out where we want everything now now now and
It’s not going to be like that here uh but it does seem like every trades person we call no matter what it is getting wood delivered having our uh chimney swept getting our furnace looked at having our pool maintained they don’t call you back they just do not call you
Back you have to keep calling them and they’ll tell you that they’re coming on a certain day and you don’t see them um it’s you call them back are you coming on this day no I’ll come next week There’s no uh no Rhyme or Reason to it
They just do not call you back the days that they tell you they’re going to be there or they don’t show up it’s very bizarre CU I can tell you that in North America they’ll be beating down the door for your business so that is very different here very different different
And something to get used to I’d be very curious to see if other expats out there have the same issue while we’ve been doing the renovations in the house we have neglected a couple of French lessons which is not good uh we know this because um my wife went in to try
And uh and buy a uh baby comb in order to get the fleas out of our cat and she asked for a baby penoa prra Sha they looked very confused uh we found out that what that translated to was a uh baby house coat for our
Cat now our cat’s eccentric but uh not that eccentric well the sun has come out it’s been raining quite a lot here but the sun is finally out and it’s time for me to head to the store to uh buy me a fish for the eat a fish campaign and you
Guys can come along after that I’d like like to take you to a place called kahor France uh a neat little village uh you might like let’s Go [Applause] yeah I think there’s cor Don’t Wow I think these stores are pretty much what you’re used to except there’s a lot more cheese a lot more wine and a lot more Seafood okay we’re going to a place called cahor and um take a little walk get out of this rain um I think you’ll
Like it um and I’ll uh give you a little rundown um as we’re walking korus has had a rich history since Celtic times the original name of the town was devona deona of the kador sounds Italian deona was a fountain now called La F the chat worshiped by the Kori a Celtic
People of Gaul before the Roman Conquest in the 50s BC the kadori were among the last Celtic tribes to resist the Roman invasion however romanization was rapid and profound theor became a large Roman city with many monuments whose remnants can be seen today it has declined economically since
The Middle Ages and lost its University in the 18th Century today it’s a popular tourist center with people coming to enjoy its medieval quarter and the 14th century fortified vantre Bridge it was also notorious at the time for the finance years widely known as the cohors Christians who charged interest on their Loans the church in these times said that using money as an end to itself was a sin and because of this cohors became synonymous with this sin and was mentioned in Dante’s Inferno alongside Sodom as Wicked Pope John the 22nd born jacqu Jew was born in cohor in 1244 the son of shoe Maker as you know on this Vlog we try to accurately describe all the villages we’ve seen in France and for some reason korus wasn’t our favorite it could have been the day it could have been our mood um it could have been the area that we
We were in cohors but it just didn’t have the same appeal to many of the other Villages we’ve seen in France but we will certainly revisit perhaps it was just a bad day ladies and gentlemen for the longest uh time this summer um we have had no
Water in our little river here it’s been so dry but um we’ve had quite a bit of rain lately and uh it’s quite nice to see that the uh river is Back River I call it a creek but uh hey you can’t go against what they call it it is a
Considered a river yeah it’s certainly a great sound to hear um I think it’s time for me to pull up a chair and maybe do some reading folks Christmas is a coming and the goose she’s getting fat too many bagots and cheese I think um next week come
Along I’m going to try and get some scenes of uh Christmas activity here in France uh that hopefully you’ll enjoy folks I hope you enjoyed this episode there only one thing left to say stay thirsty Everybody A