Sadly, I'm still searching for a lovely village house in in the Vendée, Pays de la Loire in France.

Property purchases move at a very different pace to what we're used to in Australia.

I had an offer accepted on a property in May 2008, but at the end of August, the day before it was to settle, contractual problems were discovered and it was not possible to proceed. So, I'm now searching again for the perfect pied-à-terre.

In the meantime - please feel free to visit the rest of my website with lots of other goodies about France:

www.frenchaffair.com.au