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Running a French Holiday Gite in Rural Brittany

Running a French Holiday Gite in Rural Brittany

http://giteinbrittany.blogspot.com

Our diary of running a French Holiday Gite in beautiful rural Brittany.
We bought our home in France in January 2004 as a holiday home, retirement fund and maybe a bit of rental as well - find out about our renovation, rental and holiday adventures since then by reading this blog.
Now just about to enter our fourth year of renting (2008) things have settled down a lot, we've started work on the second house ...

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  • First look at Google Chromium - the shape of personal computing to come?

    Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 06:43 in google

    Last week on Google's official Blog was the open source launch of Chromium OS, Google's operating system.Like many Google announcements it's been lept on by some industry speculators and is being touted as a future Microsoft "killer" - desp...

  • Google Translate gets better

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 01:48 in google, france

    Google announced three new features on Google Translate today that will make it even easier to bring the international internet to the masses.As well as being able to cut and paste in a paragraph of text or a web page to have it translated, Google Tr...

  • Driving in France - hints and tips

    Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 11:00 in website, Driving

    French RoadsignOne of the things that I managed to do whilst we were on holiday in August this year was to finish writing the new 'driving hints' page for our Gite website.I remember when I first registered the www.giteinbrittany.com domain name and ...

  • Ferry news from Euroferries, LDLines and a maritime disaster

    Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 03:00

    White Cliffs of Dover and Dover CastleThree different bits of ferry related news that I picked up whilst surfing through Google news today ....First up, after all the long delays of getting the Euroferries service from Ramsgate to Boulogne up and run...

  • Oddest \'contact us\' holiday rental enquiry yet?

    Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 11:04 in scam, rentalenquiry

    We get some pretty varied emails via the holiday home booking enquiry form. As well as the booking enquiries that of course we are hoping to get sent to us we also get a mixed bag of spam and scam attempts (some of which I have written about before...

  • French repairs required a trip to B&Q

    Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 14:12 in holidayhome

    Sometimes (well actually quite frequently it seems) running a Holiday Gite can be quite time consuming dealing with a long list of little things that either need repairing or are not quite right.Of course having the Gite in one country when we live f...

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This blog is currently rated a 4.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

LosAngelesStager

4 stars Michelle Minch, Moving Mountains Design Home Stagi

I have often considered having a gite somewhere in France. Through your blog I can live vicariously. Thanks.

Posted: July 4th, 2009 | More Reviews From LosAngelesStager | Report This Comment

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