The CHATEAU is surrounded! + The RENOVATION Continues On
What a week! Hunting dogs surround the chateau and a wild boar sighting! Our bathroom renovation is coming along and find some great brocante finds. Plus we visit our stream and vivier on the property and go for a walk in the charming town of Moncontour. If you enjoy our videos please like and subscribe!
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We are Amanda and Lincoln. With our two daughters and pets in tow, we moved across the world from our home in San Francisco California to buy and restore a petite chateau on 40 acres in the beautiful French countryside of Brittany.
Our channel will document our triumphs and failures in restoring the 19th-century Chateau de Lingourdy. We plan on returning the gardens, cottages and barns back to their former glory (on a tight budget) and opening it up to the public for events and luxurious stays. So if you're interested in observing daily life through the eyes of an American family whose French language skills are quite lacking and who have amassed a menagerie that includes cats, dogs, and donkeys, please join us...
The beautiful sound of that flowing water was exactly what I needed to hear after a stressful day ☺
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love that you look after all the cats on your property, shows how kind and generous you are xx
Oh, those Art Deco chairs! ❤
Glad your daughter wasn’t hurt, and she took it all in stride. No fun dealing with children traumatized by scary incidents. The beauty of your wild forest is intoxicating. It’s so dry here in Texas, I felt thirsty as the water trickled to its final destination.
The idea of spending a week in Brittany cutting down trees and cleaning up a beautiful forest near an enchanting chateau...sounds absolutely wonderful. Count me in!
They say: Teamwork makes a dream work.✨ Thank you. Your channel is very inspiring.
Wear orange when walking around your property in hunting season
As a French, I'm so sorry about the incident with the hunters but as you can see on the news we try to put laws in place to limit their "passe-droit" but it's hard. I hope they won't push a boar in your garden again
Yes, it's a difficult situation to control :(
this level of dangerous encounters has even made it to the Economist - 'France reviews its hunting rules' 5 Jan 2023 publication date. Having come rather close to a pack (we stopped counting at 12 which is where we started running and looking for trees) of wild boar with piglets while doing SERE training (Army times)...that was an entertaining 3 minutes that resulted in all of us scattering. a few weeks later we actually had a male boar charge us when we were flying helicopter missions and that was crazy. Very protective of their young and can be unpredictable - but are generally very shy. Rather brave young girl.
It's up to a private owner to put an end to hunting on their property, not the government.
@@iyzabel hunters are not know to respect it ...
@@iyzabel Why should private citizens be the primary enforcers of the law? Isn't that the role of the police and government?
Stephanie at Chateau de la Lande has a guy called Nick who is working on her forest. He has all the heavy duty machines etc, a week of him working for you might pay off. Well done on caring so for your animals.
he's miles and miles away probably over a5 hour drive, there will be someone locally.
@@zedblackworth3087 In Canada that is not far. Lol Nick is worth the distance.
So glad your daughter was ok the land you have is beautiful you both are working so hard and it will look beautiful when completed love watching your videos take care x
Scary incident with those hunters! Such a beautiful property. Love the donkeys! I hear you on the cat food. LOL. Take care. ❤️🙏
Those chairs are wonderful! Well chosen! But how frightening this encounter with the pack of dogs and the boar 🐗😱
Post along chateaux boundaries no matter how wonky. Scary. Lovely.
Have ever considered having volunteers or work aways come and help, you provide a place to sleep and they help you out?
You guys are amazing creative people who have an understanding of beauty. Thanks it is never boring
What a lovely Village full of Character, love the Cupboard its gorgeous, just hunting not good on your land as those dogs could easy find and chase yr cats down I hope they dont come back . All I'm going to say is firewood firewood . I have cats too we sold our Dairy farm 2 years ago and I just could not leave them behind as most of them are wild so I brought cages and court them, we brought 25 acres and they all here they stay outside except for 2 Grommet and Persy but I to seem to be never ending buying cat food 😄 . They are all spayed or fixed up now so no babies along with 5 horses , 13 Hereford cows and there calves 3 bulls and a large orchard it's a never ending of work to be done . I hope Mimi is doing ok . Bathroom is going to look great .
So nice that you brought the cats with you :)
The junk at the 2nd hand shop 4.31, hilarious 😂
Those dogs would freak me out, too, so would the boars. Hope that doesn't occur too often. You're both doing awesome, I think. No doubt, you both have a lot to take care of, but both of you are keeping up with it. Best wishes.
Great buys at the Brocante. The light fixtures and chairs are great purchases. Your surrounding land and forest is quite lovely.
Thanks to your love of animals, I assume you have a strict "no hunting" policy in place on your land. It needs rigorous enforcement by the local Maire. Difficult if your Maire him/herself is one of the hunters. We have had the same problem with hunting on our château land with, one time, dogs, deer and hunters all descending on a children's treasure hunt in our forest, despite our no hunting policy. It is madness! They have put your family at risk and must be made aware of the consequences. One is entitled to feel safe on one's own land. I sincerely hope your family (and animals) remain safe in the future. My best wishes from Normandie. X
Thank you. Yes, the hunters have been informed and they knew they weren't allowed on our property. They could not control the dogs and didn't seem to care to. You are correct - madness! We'll be taking another trip to see the mayor.
So sorry about the hunters. Glad your daughter was not hurt by quickly returning to the safety of the house. The woods and water are delightful to see and hear. Wonderful trip to town. Antique shopping fun and love the new purchase. Love those donkeys. See you soon.
I would have completely lost my sh** with those hunters. I’m glad you were a mama bear.
France is full of hunters which makes it dangerous if you feel like a casual country walk. They may not hit you but the endless shots being fired is stressful. Anyway how cruel is it for animals to be chased by dogs.
I agree. Hunters are horrid; no matter how they try to justify their killing, humans have created these issues for wildlife.
current population of France is 65 million ca. - Licenced hunters are 1 million ca.- and Brittany is one of the region with the fewest hunters (4%)- I'm not pro hunters but it is important to put things in perpective- 😉
I had to laugh when you dubbed yourself "The mad woman of the chateau", scary situation and I hope that they stay off your property now. The land you live on is just beautiful, it will take time to clear it and bring it back, but it will be so worth it!
I have said it before and I'll say it again, your property is so beautiful. Thank you for the walking tour. Till next time. Cheers!
I love your vlog and love what you have done to the chateau. It is amazing. What a beautiful home you are creating. Thanks for including the animals. It shows what very caring and loving people you are.
The sconces are awesome! I totally get your sense of humor. 😂
With all the hard work you both do my goodness isn’t it worth it when you just stroll in your woods what a dream xxx
Thank you for the video. Joking aside, I hope some young people are watching and can spare some time. I would but at 74 you would be helping me.
Some of the chateaux have a deal with the locals to come hunt boar when the owner sees their digging damage. Then they call and the hunters descend, and things are controlled rather than random. Your work load is significant. Best wishes to you!
It is wonderful to have a little stream in one’s property 😍💦💕💦💕💦 Thank you for sharing 🤗
You need nick the tree surgeon, from both the chateau diaries & escape to rural france.
Those leaves in the wash house, would be so good for your garden, oh I wish I had them for my vegetable garden 💛
BEST TO YOU
Thanks for the tour of the nearby town and the brocante. The armoire looks like it will be perfect. The sight and sound of the water was a lovely counterpoint to the trespassers. Hunters know the rules. They just chose not to follow them. Your daughter showed great presence to get out of the way. (She shouldn't have had to, in her own garden). Glad you let them have it, verbally. I commend your meticulous approach to all projects and unforeseen "fixes". Your donkeys, kitties (inside and outside) have better lives because you are their guardians.
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Got it! You remind me of a 70's Debra Winger... Phew, that's been bugging me for so many episodes...
You could probably sell the wood from the downed trees and get some tree work done in trade perhaps?
We usually have help from local farmers...
That is so nice feeding feral cats lots of love from New Zealand subscriber X
I love the donkeys ♥️
Love your brass sconces! And a perfect find at the Emmaus brocante!
I look forward to your vlogs. Such a beautiful property and you crack me up. Shared with my sister and we agreed that we need our own donkeys!
Love that!
You could start a local friends of the chateau as volunteers that want to help restore the land . Have events that foster woodland days for people to enjoy several times a month. Bird watching etc. 40 acres is a lot. Time to start riding the donkeys 😉 around the property.
I would have being so angry and scared all at once , Hope they will not come back. Nice to see Uvea and Dominic.
Do you pick mushrooms in your woods I just love them fried with garlic yum yum and of course butter
I know kids hate fussing. But - good grief! I’m so glad your daughter is safe. Those hunters need more red tape, signs and video attesting to their carelessness. How terrifying for you, Mama!- - Please consider bringing someone in to thin your forest and muck out your waterway. You can’t do it all! All the best😊
Were the streets empty because it was the 12th day after Christmas. Don't the French treat that as another Holy day similar to the day after Christmas in the Netherlands? Bastille Day in France.
Love your channel. Water was so relaxing.
Wild boar are becoming a big problem in France and other surrounding countries due to over population. They’re not only destructive to the land, but they will also eat small animals such as cats. This is the rutting season, which makes them even more aggressive. They have been known to attack humans and hunters. If you search this topic online you can read a lot about it. Personally I would invite the hunters in just to keep the area more safe.
Lovely watching you both. Randomly shuffling through your episodes - quite enchanting, love the banter but it must be hard work. On the note of the vivier, taking your animal lovers, have you thought about keeping beavers/otters? They’d do a great job. Anyways, do keep up the good work and enjoy.
It’s too bad you don’t have a way to get some of the bigger fallen trees milled into usable lumber. From some of your other videos the wood from the trees look very nice. Love your videos. Your music choices are excellent but nothings tops your humor! Looking forward to more cat shenanigans
I'm no expert, but I don't think those are King Alfred's or King Akrid's cakes. King Alfred's cakes look more like potatoes. The fungi that you videoed looked more like little squashes. A previous poster is correct that they are not edible. In France you can bring mushrooms to any local pharmacy for identification. Good luck!
Happy new year Amanda and Lincoln, January is a gloomy month, but the shapes of the trees are really beautiful, the Donkey's seem, to love their humans. The town was really quaint, and to see buildings dating back that far is amazing that they are still standing. did anyone live in the Chateau? Amanda, I know how much the hunters, get on your last nerve when it comes to killing the wildlife, I can't imagine how you felt with them that close to your daughter, I am so sorry you both had to go through that. Thanks for sharing. Love from N.Y.
The chateau was lived in and very well taken care of
The sconces are Fifties, neo Louis XVI. Very nice and stylish!
🤩Your donkeys are stars!! 😍The ancient village is beautiful! (maybe everyone was taking a nap!?)😉
We thought there might've been a zombie apocalypse.
@@OurFrenchChateau 😅
Your donkeys are really lovely ❤
Tracking devices on hunting dogs has really changed the "sport". Trespassing used to be managed because the hunter was within a reasonable distance behind the dogs to control them. Not anymore as hunters are off in a van w/ their phones and the dogs are on their own. This is a problem all over the world right now (even in New England but it's bears not boars). Wonderful woods, pond and streams. Would gladly volunteer to help clean up ivy and blackberry. Cheers
That’s awful! It’s not hunting or sport it’s lazy slaughter these people should be embarrassed to call themselves hunters.
what?! I did not know the hunters weren't even following the dogs. That's awful
The wood looked magical withe the streams and pools. It was interesting to see how the wood had grown. Sorry about the incident with the hunt, scary not just the boar but a pack of dogs on the hunt and not controlled. Hopefully it won't happen again.
Again, another great vlog. I love your sense of humor!
Great to see the water in your vivier, and water streaming in the creak. Sadly you too struggle with the ivy, like we do here in Canada.
Love you guys 💕
Shocking you didn't get the included trip to Barcelona, lol. Those sconces are lovely - different from most! The new chairs and the armoire for the bathroom are all super. Love your humour!
When so many have so little, how could you not be happy and grateful to live where you are even with the issues that arise from a very old and beautiful house??!!!
What makes you think we're not happy and grateful? Old buildings need care and we're just talking about that reality...
I am sorry about the incident. I am glad your daughter is safe. I love all your videos. I know you can not comment on every ones post. You have so many subscribers now. I understand about the cats. We feed the feral casts around our house as well. Plus I hand feed the crows. I love your videos. Thank you for sharing. Love and Blessings to you all. Doris, Penrith 🇦🇺🦘
Thank you thank you thank you for your beautiful videos. I know it takes a lot of time to compose and edit the videos. I don’t normally watch Utube but I love French châteaux. I hope I’m spelling that right. This is my go to place on Thursday nights. I watch your videos. I love your care for your animals. I want donkeys now of course but our yard is not big enough. I love the interaction you have between each other. Again thank you for being on KZhead so others can see your progress and see your beautiful home and your beautiful animals.
Thank you :)
love watching your videos take care
Love your home. Great channel, always look forward to each vlog. Thank you. From Whakatane, New Zealand
I would have gone berserk if one of my children was in danger! Good for you!
Gorgeous chairs!
Fabulous vlog. Distressing I know, that this blood-thirsty behaviour happens and trespasses on your land. The wood is magical but in time you can make it whatever you want it to be. Bite-sized chunks. With volunteers who will gladly come.
Love watching your experiences. Great sense of humour! Liz
Interesting , hopefully someone will help with the forest .
Could get vintage switch plates at a brocante, that could be nice and pretty and less expensive.
Lovely.
I think I comment every week about your beautiful land and your stunning views, but the incident with your daughter must have taken a few years off your life. The donkeys are so sweet. Stay safe and well. xx
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Wondering if u can find vintage light switches at brocantes? A tip on cat food, they don’t absolutely need wet food. My two very happy on dry biscuits twice a day. Might save u a bit in pet food. Love the red wellies!
Great video and narration.
Glad you enjoyed it
🥀🍃 Just found you! What a gem…outstanding photography & sound…love the babbling brook and donkeys munching carrots. But most of all the cats😺❗️Is there any way to fence your property? The nerve of those hunters running dogs and shooting guns on your land! Where’s French bureaucracy when you need it??!!🍃
Glad you've found us :)
I’m so sorry your daughter experienced that and as a parent you have to worry about that. I grew up in northern Wisconsin and we lived on 14 acres. Regardless of the signs my parents posted, we still encountered hunters trespassing and shooting. I was 12 when an idiot with a shot gun came onto our property and shot. He struck me in the shoulder fracturing the joint and pretty much blowing out my shoulder. Apparently, I looked like a deer in a blaze orange vest. I was in my front yard helping to stack wood. Never received an apology. He approached, realized what had happened, and being the responsible adult, he then ran. He was eventually caught and arrested but it messed me up for awhile. When he was asked what happened he had some crazy story that made no sense. “The gun malfunctioned.” 🤔🤔🤔 Apparently, so did his aim 🤦🏻♀️
Are King Alfred's cakes edible? Although not edible, King Alfred's Cakes make great firelighters, can be used as charcoal briquettes for campfire cooking, used to transport fire and as hand warmers on a cold day…. Could be handy fire starters for you!
Yes, that's what I read - we'll give it a try...
il semble que ce soit +tôt "Exidia truncata" > maybe, more likely to be "Exidia truncata " especially if the dead tree is oak or hazel- non edible - 🙂
i just love the peace and the sounds of your videos and i love your voices perfect for listening too , what did you both do for work in the states , i always guess on what people did or do by seeing them , i would guess your hubby as a professor or scientist , and you as corporate person lol lol am i close ?
Very delightful vlog !
Glad your daughter wasn't hurt x
I would love to show you some of my Emmaüs antiques, some, I think, Louis XV d"epoch (from Louis' time, not "de style," in the same style. Thought you might find them interesting. Another thing about wallpapering with Toile de Jouey. There's matching mateerial for curtains, the bit yoou drape over the bottom of the bed, the first big pillow beehind the big white ones. Too, you often see the inside of the doors of armoires like your very plain one finished off with the Toile de J cloth, just the curved part to the bottom, the edges turrned under and I think glued on. Very very pretty, and you can eveen leave the ddoors open all the time even with dishes, linens, etc. visible. I've only seen this done on armoires like your plain one, the Louis XV,. About the different historical styes of French antiques . . . . With each successivee King, the style changed to show that the new king wanted us to know that he had his own tase. You now know how to recognise Louis XV. Lou XVI has STRAIGHT legs and chair backs. Oh yes, Lou XIV has few armoires but marble-topped commodes, chests of drawers, because there was more going from chateau to chateeat for hunting primarily, so armoires would have been too cumbersome. Too, they couold cut the meat on the marble top. The single beds you painted black are the style of the last King, Louis Philippe. Way back before Louis XIV was Henri II. He did have armoires, dark wood, and the thick thick doors carved, not exactly 'flowery,' but more geometric. I've been told that the less carving (like on your plain Louis XV armoire mean earlier in the reign, maybe even when he was Regent. Styles also vary between regions of France. Check all of this out as I think you'll find it fascinating but probably won't change the antiques you choose.
Love your vlogs especially your dry sense of humor " I can't remember the name but if you ask me I will make something up"
Amanda, you are very talented with filming the château and grounds. It was a pleasure to watch. Greetings from Arizona USA 🇺🇸
Thanks :)
You really need some volunteers it is too much for you and Lincoln
Love those chairs. I hope you'll have good lights in the bathroom over a mirror. Female guests will need that for applying make up.
Oh that would be fun mucking it up-beautiful stream too.
wow, wild boar and hunters! I think I would be yelling too. That doesn't sound very safe. A whole bunch of wild mad Frenchmen running after dogs with loaded weapons!!! The black mushrooms looked like slugs, yuck. I do love how the donkeys straight away clocked you and wheelbarrow and trotted off to see what delights you had on offer. 40 acres is alot of land to manage, I do not envy you, but it is very beautiful. We have 6 acres and that seems like enough most of the time.
How lucky was your daughter! as someone else mentioned very difficult to control hunters on your land, especially if they are friends with the Marie... The bathroom is starting to take shape, thanks for sharing... take care
To clean out all of the trees, and overgrowth, consider asking a church group, or high school kids that want to do some good for their community members. It's an automatic "no" if you don't ask. Just a thought.
Your so Blessed to have such a beautiful home and land. Something I would love to have. Your daughters are very lucky.
2alig dat jij zo goed xoor de zwerfkatten zorgt thx
You guys are so fearless and hope 2023 will be a productive year for you.
You should build a small bridge over the stream that would look very nice
Yes. Terrifying. Your daughter behaved the best way possible I think. Staying calm is important. I like the wall sconces.
you have a beautiful property LUCKY
If you have locals who may want firewood, or wood for furniture making, you may approach them to come and get trees that are down or tag ones you want rid off, they cut and take them, it may help you on clean up of the area.
Love the sounds of the running water. Such a treasure to have. Looks like the donkeys are doing well. What a scare with those hunters. Hope you find someone to help with all the downed trees and leaves in the vivirer. Thanks for sharing 😍😘
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