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If you're looking
to buy a house in France, the Gers ticks all the
right boxes for many of us and we're here to
help you in any way we can. We hope that our
local knowledge and that of our friends and
contacts here will help guide you smoothly and
quickly in the right direction so that less time
is wasted in costly flights and trips over to
France to view unsuitable properties, or houses
in unsuitable locations which is so often the
bugbear of looking in an area unknown to us. If
you like, we can view a property for you and
give you a 'no nonsense' bare bones summary via
email or phone which may help you decide whether
to view it on your next trip over. We will set
up appointments for you with estate agents we
know and trust or pass on your contact details
and requirements to them. There are so many
little ways that having a pair of eyes and ears
in the area can help you and unless it involves
us in travelling or expensive phone calls there
is no charge. It is all part of being a Chambres
d'Hotes owner and one of the nicest parts of the
job!
If you would like us to put you in touch with
other property- purchasers, who will vouch for
the help we gave them, please ask us. And
if, after all this, you're wondering whether the
Gers is really for you, I have listed below,
rose-tinted glasses off, what I consider to be
it's main characteristics, both good and not so
good:
The Gers has no cities and only Auch offers
really acceptable out of town shopping. It is a
rural department.
Many of the villages are very small, often with
no facilities.
This is an objective statement(!) The people
here are very welcoming.
Most of the land is fairly heavy clay which is
highly productive and heavily farmed but with
masses of areas for wildlife.
Talking of wildlife, it is an amazingly rich and
diverse landscape full of wild animals and
plants.
There are four true seasons, which deserve a
sentence each!
Winter; short, dry, cold and sunny. Maybe three
months of cold weather with frosts and
occasionally snow but not rainy and miserable
too often!
Spring; beginning in March, rainy and sunny in
April, really warm by May. Hot in June.
Summer; June, July and August hot. 35degrees can
be expected with superb electric storms in
August due to our proximity to the mountains.
Autumn; September continues to be very warm,
sunny and sometimes sharp in October, with mists
coming in in November.
The Gers has very few 'must see' places or
sights. It is in general a beautiful landscape
full of good-looking country houses and small
medieval villages but it is unsophisticated.
In neighbouring departments, Pau, Toulouse and
Bergerac are the closest airports. Bordeaux is
also an option.
Most parts of the Gers are;
Less than two and a half hours to the Atlantic
coast (Biarritz, Hossegor, St Jean de Luz)
Less than two hours to the ski resorts in the
Pyrenees (La Mongie, Cauterets, St Lary)
The Gers population hardly seems to vary at all
in the summer. We are not a tourist hotspot.
If there is anything else you'd like to know -
perhaps you are a gardener? A horse rider? A
bird watcher? A farmer? Send me an
email
and ask away! |
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