Escape to rural France

We are often asked ‘What do you get to watch on TV?’. The answer is generally that we admit to no longer owning a TV, which isn’t exactly true, we do have our old one that we brought from the UK, but we have never set it up here.

In the summer we spend most of our evenings enjoying our time outside, but in the winter we do like to sit down in the evening after dinner to watch something before bed. Netflix and Prime are great sources for box sets or movies, and we watch them on the iPad or laptop. Our French Prime enables us to watch French shows with English subtitles or even French subtitles if we are not too tired. This is great for our language learning.

We also watch a number of shows on ‘YouTube’, it has some great content creators. ‘Chateau diaries’ was a spin off from escape to the chateau, and a few others have since come from that.

The vlog on YouTube we now love to catch most days is ‘Escape to rural France’. It’s filmed, edited and starred in by one man, Dan, who pretty much is single handedly rebuilding his newly acquired chateau that was damaged by fire around 50 years ago, and has been left to decay since.

It’s quite incredible and very inspirational, however not something we would ever take on!