Admiring French Engineering

We are two weeks into our stay in the Tarn area. One thing that we have agreed on over here this trip is that we need to stay at least two weeks in an area to get through the “excitement” of exploring a new area and come to grips with living day to day. So this next week will give us another chance to test things out a bit further. We do agree that this area has plenty of potential with the bigger towns of Montauban, Albi, Toulouse and Castres being within easy reach and we like the interesting bastide towns to the north of Albi. Also the canal de Midi is about an hour way. We are now certain that buying in the countryside as seems to be the case for many English is not for us. If we wanted that sort of lifestyle we could follow that up in Australia and not have to take on the other challenges of communication, culture and language etc. So our discussions are now moving from around locations to the more important one of what sort of life we would be taking on over here.