For this week’s entry we bring back guest blogger Maxine Tomashefksy who reflects on the transition period of retiring to a new country. Maxine had been involved in raising money for cancer in her native California, and decided that volunteering as a retiree in...
This week’s entry comes from Renestance’s Administration Specialist, Nicole Hammond. Nicole worked as a real estate agent for seven years when she first arrived in France, with local real estate agents (‘immobiliers’) and also national...
I remember looking through ads to find a rental in Languedoc, France back in 2012, when we were thinking about making the move from Seattle. At some point I came across an online forum where people were ranting about how impossible it was for foreigners to find...
Moving to France is not all wine and cheese. In this second guest post from travel blogger and photographer Maxine Tomashefsky, Maxine fills us in on the challenges of some of the smaller details we often take for granted–like having a mailing address! This...
This week we are thrilled to introduce Maxine Tomashefsky, travel writer and photographer, as a guest blogger here at Renestance. Maxine and her husband Steve retired and moved to a village near Pézenas less than a year ago, and she has been blogging about her...
