Well, this year's Cannes Film Festival is going into its second week and we haven't heard anything from our guests so I guess they must be having a great time. The weather is thankfully much better than last year when it rained and rained throughout the Film Festival - so unusual for May in the South of France. I was there in the sunshine only last week with four of my lovely friends for a pre-birthday girls only weekend - and it seems forever ago already. Roll on august when I will be there again.
We updated the bedroom in "Leon" during the Easter holidays with a pretty French blue & white duvets and wall & new bedside table and accessories but unfortunately my updated website will not upload due to a very frustrating glitch - another job on my seemingly endless list of jobs.
The first of next weeks jobs include chasing up the date of the next Assemblé General - that is the annual meeting of the apartment owners in our building, along with the managing company, to discuss what the money is spent on and to give permission for any work we want to do.
We have a white fence around the terrace which we are going to replace with a beautiful wrought iron fence which is much more in keeping with the rest of the building and will look much smarter. We hoped to have it done by spring but the cogs move very slowly in France and we have had to be patient and wait for permission - though saying that we have already ordered our fence and paid half up front so fingers crossed they don't say no to our request!!! Our limited ability with the French language causes us major headaches with jobs like this - more on my to do list .... book more French lessons for September.
We are still surprised in the present climate how booked up we are, people started booking much earlier and with the exception of 1 week in July for each apartment we are fully booked now until early September. In fact I only just managed to squeeze in a couple of weeks for us!
I will leave it at that for my very first post as I have a list of guests to email today to arrange arrivals and to return security deposits.
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