{"id":3334,"date":"2010-04-14T10:14:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T09:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2013-11-25T17:34:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T16:34:45","slug":"owning-a-french-carp-fishery-but-living-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/owning-a-french-carp-fishery-but-living-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Owning a French carp fishery… but living in England"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After looking for many years for the right place we finally found it at Watersmeet<\/a>. Our problem was always going to be the fact that we would be owners not living in France, so our choice had to be somewhere we could get to for a long weekend, otherwise it wouldn\u2019t work. We run a business in England and look forward to our time off… we figured northern France would be workable.<\/p>\n

It took us about 18 months to get the house and lake up to scratch. We re-dug the lake and had it stocked and totally renovated the house.<\/p>\n

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The couple we bought the house from were English and had owned it for about 15 years, even though they only visited about 3 times a year.\u00a0 They had left the care and maintenance of it in the hands of the bar owner in the village and when we bought the house his son-in-law became our handy man and later good friend. Christian spoke little English and over the next couple of years we had many laughs over the language barrier. \u00a0One problem we did find is that the French are like the Spanish and have no urgency about them, unlike us who want everything done yesterday!\u00a0 This did cause a problem sometimes as we would go over on a flying visit only to find nothing had been done… very frustrating!<\/p>\n

A major benefit to us is that we can go for a long weekend (only in the closed season) as once we are in France we are only a 2 hour drive to the house. To buy a similar holiday home in England would cost much more.\u00a0 We are lucky that we have a steady supply of people always willing to go over do some work and in return have a holiday… we couldn\u2019t keep it up to the standard it is if it wasn\u2019t for their help. Plus Christian still keeping an eye on the place, with the constant cutting of the grass etc.<\/p>\n

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I can\u2019t really say that we\u2019ve had many problems with owning in France whilst not living there.\u00a0 We did try to use the local people for the cleaning and the \u2018meet and greet\u2019 but this didn\u2019t really work because of the language barrier and their \u00a0understanding of the lake regarding the fishing was poor. They find it hard to understand that the English would travel to France to fish when they could do this in England!<\/p>\n

I must also mention the fact that not living there means we are not there to nag (sorry ask nicely) our guests to send photo\u2019s and feedback. I do find compared with other venues we sometimes lack the volume of entries on our home page.<\/p>\n

To finish we must thank Heather, Larry and Steve\u2019s of Genets as without their help we definitely would not be as successful as we are.<\/p>\n

AND LASTLY THANKS TO MUM AND DAD… can\u2019t even start to list their contributions!<\/p>\n

June and Mick Bedford, Watersmeet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After looking for many years for the right place we finally found it at Watersmeet. Our problem was always going to be the fact that we would be owners not living in France, so our choice had to be somewhere we could get to for a long weekend, otherwise it wouldn\u2019t work. We run a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[966],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carp-lake-management"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}