The Sunday Telegraph London, September 17th, 2006
We first saw the old stone farmhouse on a misty day and decided against it: it required too much work. However, Emily and I returned for a second look the next morning when the mist was rising to reveal a superb view over three lines of hills to the Beaujolais mountains. I could hear the Angelus in the distance, from the church across the valley.
The house is in the Brionnais, a small area of southern Burgundy in the heart of France. It was built in 1835 and faces due south.
There was no garden at all when we arrived about six years ago, just some rough grass by the house, a sloping, rubble-...
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