Letter #7: The Not-So-Dreamy Bit of Living the Dream
Published on: 30/08/2026
Visas, paperwork, French bureaucracy… and the €400 we paid for someone to hopefully look at a piece of paper more quickly.
Visas, paperwork, French bureaucracy… and the €400 we paid for someone to hopefully look at a piece of paper more quickly.
The day is only just beginning. The air is still, the mountains are stretching out in front of me, and I’m looking across a view that, even now, sometimes makes me wonder how on earth this became my life.
Let’s rewind the story just a little. We’d found the house. Not just a house. Our house. The one that made our hearts race a little faster. The one that quietly whispered, “You’re home,” before we’d even unpacked a suitcase.

“Why Brassac?” Why this little village, tucked away in the mountains of the Tarn?