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  • Changing Hemispheres Part Eight: Paris to Home
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Changing Hemispheres Part Eight: Paris to Home

Judy Crozier2019-01-31T16:57:56+00:00New Beginnings|

Moving over and in: Paris to home, January 2015

Unbeknownst to me, of course, the train station wasn’t far from my modest hotel, in Montmartre. This meant, of course, that I parted with another of my limbs in payment for a taxi, fetched for me by a touter who no doubt […]

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  • Changing Hemispheres. Part Seven: London to Paris
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Changing Hemispheres. Part Seven: London to Paris

Judy Crozier2019-01-31T15:34:39+00:00New Beginnings|

From Melbourne to Paris, via London

Anyone who has ever sold a house after twenty years or so will know most of the story of my trials. Suffice to say, very little goes smoothly, everyone accuses everyone else of being unhelpful … and the piles of rubble seem endless.   Not only […]

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  • Changing Hemispheres. Part Six: First Trip (continued)
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Changing Hemispheres. Part Six: First Trip (continued)

Judy Crozier2018-10-30T15:17:02+00:00New Beginnings|

Agde, floods, signing up and shipping out

 

Sneakiness and good timing meant that I could in fact escape the hotel for a meal occasionally, without being called back to eat with the family. I assume their kindly concern was […]

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  • Changing Hemispheres. Part Five: First Trip (continued)
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Changing Hemispheres. Part Five: First Trip (continued)

Judy Crozier2018-10-29T17:23:38+00:00New Beginnings|

Meeting France – Ancient Agde, doors, doors and doors…

Now, where was I?

Ah yes. I had decided that, while the final decisions were being made about which house to buy, I should take myself to some seaside town of picturesque dimensions. Especially given it was still summer. Have some sort of […]

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  • Changing Hemispheres. Part Four: First trip (continued)
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Changing Hemispheres. Part Four: First trip (continued)

Judy Crozier2018-10-29T17:27:06+00:00New Beginnings|

….Nimes and the Pope’s new castle.

And so the hour-long trip to Montpellier by bus. In my last report I didn’t mention the slight confusion when I booked my seat. I thought they’d said three Euros for the trip, but when I went to pay I was told no, that’s one […]

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  • Changing Hemispheres. Part Three: First Trip (continued)
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Changing Hemispheres. Part Three: First Trip (continued)

Judy Crozier2018-10-29T16:17:10+00:00New Beginnings|

Agents and choices; vineyards and medieval towns

It is absolutely evident that wine is the local industry, There are vines everywhere in this region. One of my agents (V, who originally came from Lebanon) chose, she said, to live just a […]

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  • Changing Hemispheres. Part Two: The First Trip, August 2014
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Changing Hemispheres. Part Two: The First Trip, August 2014

Judy Crozier2018-10-29T16:15:14+00:00New Beginnings|

Meeting France, August 2014

In which I make a trip to France to make its acquaintance and to choose from my short-list of houses.

I am here. I have slept a lot, as you might expect after seven hours from Melbourne to Malaysia (lo! I had […]

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  • Changing Hemispheres. Part One: Beginnings & reflections on a fantasy
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Changing Hemispheres. Part One: Beginnings & reflections on a fantasy

Judy Crozier2018-10-29T16:10:16+00:00New Beginnings|

Years ago, I began to think a smaller house without mortgage could be the thing to do. Would be interesting. Would be a change, a relief, an adventure. My boys were old enough to move out; in fact, one of them often did.

Preston, roughly 10 km north of central Melbourne, […]

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