Frustration & Encouragement

The problems with the caravan continue to plague the project. Basically I've spent the last month kicking my heels in the UK trying to make sense of what the lawyers are trying to do to sort it out. As a consequence no physical progress has been made on the ground in France.

However, we have had quotes and responses from the tradesmen I talked with when I was in Arné and having checked these with the architect it would seem that they are at a reasonable level. So we now have some sense of the order of the costs that the overall works will amount to. I shall get further quotes to make the necessary comparisons and have some bargaining space though.

And the architect has also produced plans at the final stage prior to submission to obtain the Permis de Construire. This is the encouraging bit! As part of the submission there has to be an indication of what the outcome of the project will be and this is what the two pictures attached to this post show - compare these to the picture in very first posting.

Just like that it's all completed - we wish! But it is good to have a view of how it could/should all look when we get to the end of the long haul that this project will undoubtedly be.

And with that thought I shall now 'phone the solicitors to see what, if any, progress has been made to sort out the caravan. Let's hope that I can meet the new deadline I've set myself of setting off with a caravan at the end of April.