In 2008, Ged and I fell in love with La Mancellière and decided to leave behind our friends, families and the bright lights of London to embark on a mad adventure in rural France. We have given up jobs and lifestyles that revolve around the city to jump feet first into the unknown. Our simple aim is to create an original, comfortable and relaxing home-from-home for our guests and to develop a working, family home for ourselves. We grow our own vegetables, keep chickens and lambs and attempt to be as self-sufficient as possible without boring the pants off people. We have ditched high heels for wellies (at least I have) and swapped sushi for soup in order to slow our lives down to a more laid-back, healthy pace. Our hope is that La Mancellière reflects that change of pace and becomes somewhere people want to revisit year after year.