Hamlet houses, etc. (2)

This is a view from our back gate. The house on the left above is much larger than it looks to be in my photo. It's lived in by people who bought it three or four years ago. The house on the right is also a big house. It's owned by a woman who lives in the Paris suburbs. She comes down here less and less frequently these days. I think she finds the weather here too depressing. She also owns an apartment down on the Côte d'Azur, where she spent a couple of months last summer. She has two adult children. I don't know if either one or both of them would be happy to inherit and live in the house at some point. More pictures below...

Houses like these would probably sell for about 250,000 euros. Each is on at least half an acre of land. There's another house of similar size and style behind them, on even more land. All three of the houses I'm writing about have been nicely remodeled inside over the past few years. They are sort of jammed together on a big piece of land.

As I've mentioned, a lot of vineyard parcels out back have been dug up over the past year or two. The parcels are a muddy mess nowadays, since we've had so much rain over the past year or so. One day they will be replanted and the owners, who live about a mile from us and own some 75 acres of vineyard land around the area, will start making and selling wine with the new grapes. They'll probably be planted with Sauvignon Blanc grapes, which seem to be replacing other varietals around here.

Here's a late-December view of the dirt road, which is a public right-of-way, runs for a mile or two through vineyards before connecting with another paved road. The dirt road is full of pot holes (nids de poule) because of all the rain we've been having.