What did you wish you'd brought from home for your rental apartment?
Jun 21st, 2006, 06:07 PM
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I've been very lucky with my gite rentals so far. However, the one in the Dordogne definitely stands out.
Coffee, tea, salt, pepper, butter, sugar, olive oil, fresh baguette, bottled water, nuts, fruit, red and white wine, shower gel, shampoo, wood for the fireplace...it was all provided. The owner even brought us a printout of the weather forecast every morning. And the gite was perfectly equipped.
I know this can't be topped and have not expected it from subsequent rentals. However, it would be mighty nice if it happened again as I'm renting in Normandy and Britanny this year.
Ginny
Coffee, tea, salt, pepper, butter, sugar, olive oil, fresh baguette, bottled water, nuts, fruit, red and white wine, shower gel, shampoo, wood for the fireplace...it was all provided. The owner even brought us a printout of the weather forecast every morning. And the gite was perfectly equipped.
I know this can't be topped and have not expected it from subsequent rentals. However, it would be mighty nice if it happened again as I'm renting in Normandy and Britanny this year.
Ginny
Jun 21st, 2006, 06:26 PM
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PBProvence: "I think that if you rent a place they should provide you with the necessities - like a good frying pan, tissues, paper towels, good knives, etc."
We have always rented very high-end, expensive properties, in Ireland and Prvence, and most of the time the owners supplied high quality pots, pans and knives. However, the items were completely destroyed by the renters - I am not blaming the owners here.
In one place in Ireland, owned by an American woman who obvious loved to cook (she had a great selection of top notch cook-books) had Le Creuset pots and Heinkle knives - the pots had been so abused, the enamel on the inside was black and cracked, the frying pans had been gouged and the knives were bent and blunt. I think most owners use their places once or twice a year and rent out for the rest of the season and can't keep tabs on how their property is abused by renters.
We love to cook, rather than eat out every night, so we inevitable end up in the local supermarket on the first day to buy a frying pan and a good cutting knife. In France, we leave them for the next renters and in Ireland we bring them back to my sisters in Dublin.
We have always rented very high-end, expensive properties, in Ireland and Prvence, and most of the time the owners supplied high quality pots, pans and knives. However, the items were completely destroyed by the renters - I am not blaming the owners here.
In one place in Ireland, owned by an American woman who obvious loved to cook (she had a great selection of top notch cook-books) had Le Creuset pots and Heinkle knives - the pots had been so abused, the enamel on the inside was black and cracked, the frying pans had been gouged and the knives were bent and blunt. I think most owners use their places once or twice a year and rent out for the rest of the season and can't keep tabs on how their property is abused by renters.
We love to cook, rather than eat out every night, so we inevitable end up in the local supermarket on the first day to buy a frying pan and a good cutting knife. In France, we leave them for the next renters and in Ireland we bring them back to my sisters in Dublin.
Jun 22nd, 2006, 09:26 AM
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I know we don't want to spend too long buying essentials, but I find that it's an enjoyable part of my trip to have to go into a shop to buy loo roll, milk, etc - it's a real window onto how the locals live and what they think is important - eg in the US, 100 different breakfast cereals ! Plus it gives me a chance to practice whatever language I'm murdering on this trip!
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