Well the Mill is coming on so fast and yet I cannot get time to relay this to the blog, I am so frustrated with this as the idea was to get the whole journey mapped onto the blog in pictorial/editorial fashion.
I have so many fantastic pictures of this renovation project, taking it from a shell to almost habitable, it is full of history and mystique, I have massive desire to learn more, old pictures and stories, things like the reputed gun stash from the German occupation of the town, the whereabouts of old tools and maybe the mill wheel.
As a story this will be brilliant as it maps out two men who took a chance on the whim of a single Internet picture and in a week visited then bought and in the middle of that secured the French bank account to make the circle complete. Planning, building permissions, Architects and builders, everything has been like clockwork and this is the perfect case history for anyone wanting to do the same.
An element of ‘devil may care’ attitude has been needed and also patience as after truning around a purchase so fast it was 7 years before we started renovating due to pressures of business, that said we did what we needed… secured our dream property first and dealt with the rest as we could.
The French Watermill is breathtaking and wonderful, it will be a stake in the ground for anyone daring to follow their dream, purchased for only £45k (60,000 Euros at the time) with a healthy investment of money and love it will be the dream come true.
