The viewing

It was a rainy grey Sunday morning. Earlier this week a friend had visited us who used to live in our village - she now lives in Essoyes. She had not seen our house since we’d completed the renovation of the bedrooms, and was looking forward to see what we had done. She loved it.

We chatted about where we’d bought some of our furniture, I think she liked our eclectic look. Whilst she was with us she shared the details of an auction website which she likes to use. I was keen to take a look at it, so was soon exploring what they had for sale. I came across an auction that was happening this weekend in Châtillon-Sur-Seine. How exciting was that, this was literally 30 minutes drive away. So this morning we took a drive to Châtillon to view the contents of an old maison de mâitre in the centre of the town.

Prior to attending the auction we needed to register online to receive our bidding number, just in case we wanted to buy anything. Once we had registered we were given the exact details of where the auction would be.

We arrived at the Maison for the pre-sale viewing, which was very interesting…to say the least.

It has to be said that there are some very unusual items.

Just waiting now for the bidding to start…find out tomorrow how it all goes, I just have to remember not to get carried away with my bidding paddle!