
An American in the French countryside, restoring a centuries-old château and writing the real story, from renovation decisions to culture shock, with a little magic at the edges.
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The coach house opens this summer. The pool tried to stop us.
If you’re new here, welcome. We’re an American family living in rural France, restoring a small château, and currently learning that nothing here happens on the timeline you ima...
Or: three years of being the only American in the room
Three years in, I have become an unpaid cultural informant. I am almost always the only American at the table, which means that somewhere around the second bottle, someone asks me to e...
We take the train a lot here. France makes it easy to: the TGV will fling you across the country at three hundred kilometers an hour while you eat a sandwich, and the regional lines connect even the small villages, and the whole thing is, b...
Three years in France taught me the difference between being nice and being kind. They are not the same thing, and one is much rarer than the other.
There’s a distinction nobody warned me about before we moved here, and it took about six m...
We needed the Marauder's Map and got a digger instead
If you’re new here: we’re an American family living in rural France, restoring a small château, and writing it all down. Welcome.
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Kamille writes from the French countryside, where her family is restoring a centuries-old château one room at a time. Expect old-house lore, the renovation diary (minus the gloss), and a small thread of folktale magic.
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