I cannot believe that we are half way through our first season at Galathée. It seems that we have the combination right of old and new, because so far all our guests seem to geniunely love Galathée. Last April I almost threw the towel in fighting with (extremely) difficult decorators and carpenters. I fell out of love […]
Last week I did a quick trip over to Galathée with my friend Karen to check up on the house, do some work and have fun! Unfortunately, to kick things off we had a horrid flight from Southampton. We were scheduled to land at La Rochelle but were diverted to Nantes because of bad weather. […]
Well the New Year has arrived and we have already had our first guests! We asked for feedback and were told that we had not supplied an Oyster Knife (!) – not bad if that is the only criticism! We are very excited as lots of bookings are coming in, even someone enquiring for their honeymoon which is […]
Well we did it… we survived and finished our project. It dawned on me watching Grand Designs the other evening that we have actually done our very own mini version. Wow, how cool is that? And totally unplanned! Galathée, Saint Martin de Ré is ready to be rented after painstakingly turning it back into what it was; a […]
Great news! Alistair Sawdays has approved our house to go in their French collection. We have taken our first booking for July and a lovely Canadian woman is interested in perhaps a long term let at the end of the year! […]
This is Ralph Lauren contract fabric so it is oil/water-resistant on an old french bed which I painted in Annie Sloane paint. This will be going in the gorgeous, newly renovated house! […]
I whizzed over to St Martin on Tuesday to stay for a couple of days in the lovely Hotel Jetée. It is modern, clean and great value, I thoroughly recommend it. I arrived on the island at about 5.30pm, over excited with my house keys clutched in my hand. Of course the sun was shining, it […]
We did our usual mad 48 hour road trip to St Martin, Ile de Ré last weekend leaving on Valentines Day. My romantic evening was spent in MacDonalds in Les Herbiers packed with french teenage lovers eating Filet-o-Fish followed by two warm glasses of white wine. How lovely! By the end of all our driving we were absolutely […]
We have not been back to St Martin since our last visit on 28th December, but that does not mean work has stopped or we have not been busy!! My job is to paint the brown furniture we brought back with gorgeous Annie Sloan paints – I did a course and I am ready to go! We have […]
Well, we had lots of luck and a bit of bad luck – I will explain later… We flew out on Friday morning from Gatwick to Bordeux and then drove down to St. Martin to check on progress. The drive took 2 hours. We were booked in to stay in a gorgeous B&B in Rivedoux called […]
