Pay no attention to the people asking nosy, personal questions and commenting on your cats andcdecor. You are doing a good thing taking care of these cats and rescuing animals. Well done you two. Plus, love your chateau!!!😊
Watching your channel, the easiness, the "honest" talk, no fuss, no makeup of things, what you hear is how it is, is giving us, me, the insight of a family, their hard work, really hard work considering there's only two people restoring. You're a mum, a cook, a decorator, painter, gardener, animal carer and wife to an equal hard worker, electrician, plumber, builder etc.etc. I have respect for you both in keeping your children away from the public view. Each completion of a project is your triumph alone, there aren't other helpers behind the scene. The honest approach is what really makes me watch your channel and I hope you have work ahead of you for another couple of years!!! And I loved your diplomatic answer: between €200,000 and €2,000.000!!! Serves them right!!!
You are a delightful couple, funny, determined and engaging. I am glad you have done RU-vid. Thank you for inviting 'me' vicariously into your home. Btw why no chickens?
I love your RU-vid channel and would feel sad if you stopped You are so natural , refreshing and inspiring There is also a lot of kindness and honesty in your videos You are sharing ❤️🐱🐴🐶❤️ It is a privilege to watch you and witness your dream come true Thank you ✨✨✨💕 Happy New Year 💕🧚♀️🧚♂️💕💫
I've been watching another Chateau channel for about a year, then came across yours about two weeks ago. You are fun, whitty and charming and love your home and the care you have for the land and the animals that live on it. Do your own thing, don't worry about the criticism and enjoy your journey. I'll keep watching and hope you never tire of filming. Best to the both of you in '24.
Your channel is beautiful, creative, peaceful and honest. No fuss, just real and easy. I respect you keeping your children’s lives private and your family life to yourselves. What a lovely discovered beach and beautiful drone shots. Here’s to 2024 and your future renovations. xx
I love your channel you are both so funny honest and delightful.Your caring for animals is inspirational especially the neutering of the cats.Good luck for 2024 with your future renovating Im sure it will be lovely as Amanda is so talented at putting it all together. Happy New Year to you both and to your girls❤
Absolutely loved the drone footage of that glorious beach. I love beaches where you don't obviously see all the human footprints and can imagine that you alone are the only ones on the beach. People who ask nosy personal questions are just plain rude. Ignore them!! Love your cats and if they are inside it is no one else's business. I would truly miss you both if you stopped filming.
Are all the feral cats so friendly in France? My son and I, mostly my son, have been caring for a feral community of 8 to 12 cats in Delaware USA for Years and although they come running when they see him, for food, they mostly won’t even let him pet them! When it’s bad weather he has made my porch into a comfy place for them to sleep using our old blankets, pillows etc. We also have 4 indoor only cats of our own, one of which he found on a street years ago who is somewhat friendlier but Hates to be picked up😅
You're on my favourite list.... With your voice and Lincoln's coolness with two donkeys, dogs and cats, watching your château transforming, I look forward to every vlog. Happy New Year! love from Bournemouth ,England xxx
I love your channel! I don't think it is boring at all. love having the animals and the house cats are great! Keep the videos coming! Happy New Year to all of you!
As usual you are both a delight! I’m not that outgoing either. But the people I like I like. Oh my gosh! The new kitty is so beautiful!! And she wants to be loved! What a honey ❤ I have a little fellow that took months to tame. He loves being loved now, and is at my side. You are so kind, I think of all the suffering you have prevented! Thank you!
Boring???? No wayyy!! You are funny, down-to-earth, spontaneous and charming. And hard working and adventurous. I love your vlog, and congratulate you on doing a wonderful job with your chateau and your animals. Don’t go away.
That kitty eating wet cat food provided great ASMR with the delectable eating sounds. When you live in the country and have out buildings, cats seem to find you. They are good mousers and can earn their keep. Anyhow, I like the channel. Happy New Years!
I just adore your humour, thank you for making me smile. I so enjoy watching your journey on your beautiful property, I envy your sense of adventure- thank you for sharing that with us. You are a lovely couple and I wish all the very best for 2024.
Thanks for sharing your info........always love your videos, laid back plus the inclusion of cats in your decor and donkeys in your garden always brightens my day.....I look forward to the restoration of the cottage and watching the seasons change in your beautiful grounds. Happy New Year to you and your family. xx
I look forward to your videos! I admire your honesty and attitude! I also have no desire to be a tv star. I am impressed as you tackle what seem like huge projects to me and totally understand the feeling of being overwhelmed on some days. Steady but sure while taking care of yourselves. Bravo to your family!
I LOVE ❤️ your channel plus your wicked humor is wonderful-so please don’t leave. Your kitties are adorable and the last one that was eating on the table I hope you’re able to catch it. They’re all beautiful!! Happy New 2024 to you both!!
I’ve always heard it takes about 18 months to really get used to your new surroundings! You’ve accomplished a lot -love your taking in the donkeys too! 🫏 🐈
Love, love your low key personalities, your humour and still waiting patiently for the only fans. Thanks for doing this out of your comfort zone. Happy New Year🎉❤
Love you guys! Been waiting all weekend for this update. I hope you had a wonderful holiday! ❤ FYI - You are my favorite channel on RU-vid, and I subscribe to A LOT of channels - almost 300. Please don't go away!
Hello from PEI Canada.🇨🇦 So you don’t miss the traffic. I understand the quietness, peace and nice people and culture, as we now have here after living in Toronto
Wishing you all the very best in 2024 with your plans and dreams. May the girls have a good year at school, may you have delight adventures and much joy and laughter.
Happy New Year! Yours is my favorite chateau and exactly what I would want should I want to buy a chateau (trying to convince my friends to chip in on one and they are starting to warm up to the idea). Your chateau is aesthetically charming, not too big, has the right amount of land, beautiful outbuildings, near scenic towns, not too far from the sea, donkeys and my favorite part of your chateau is your dreamy allée. Considering how crazy the USA is now (not that there are any places on this earth that aren't crazy right now) I one hundred percent think the two of you have gotten it right. Yes I know I live in SoHo, NYC and Dollar A Slice Pizza is right down the street from me (don't be too jealous!) but I think you and your family have landed an extraordinary chateau and lifestyle.
NYC is sure world's away from France and their lifestyle! But also a lovely place. My hubby moved to NWPA, USA from CT, we think this is Utopia, layed back, farms, neighbors helping each other. But yes, it's a crazy upside down world. Amanda and Lincoln take my mind off troubles for a while. Happy 2024
My favorite is the allee, as well, it tickles my imagination, conjuring up images of past times, with carriages coming and going. When I watch one of my favorite videos, Anne Lennox, Walking On Broken Glass, it always makes me think of the people and characters that have been in these chateau. I'm a dreamer. ; ) sincerely in San Diego
@@phyllisburrell8661 When I was younger I saw Private Benjamin and at the end Goldie Hawn's character marches down the allée of her ex fiance a liberated woman. I have loved them ever since and if I were to buy a chateau I would have to insist that a gorgeous allée was a part of the property.
@@thelocalartisanguide7937 , sounds like you are a dreamer, like me. : ). I love to imagine what things were like in past times. Would love to see an allee in person in my lifetime. Ask UTUBE for the video I suggested, the costumes are wonderful and features John Malcovitch, yummy : ) see I'm a weirdo. Sincerely in San Diego California
It's really good to see that you are taking care of the feral cats. They would live a miserable life if you didn't feed them. It's good to hear that you have gotten them fixed as well. Keep up the good work. You have a lovely piece of property and I like the smaller size Chateau.😊
Happy New Year to you and your family (whether they be of the 2-legged or 4-legged variety). May you never lose your « brand » of boring! 😊 I wish you continued success with all your renos and your youtube channel. You deserve a much wider audience, with your great cinematography, music and editing. 🎥 🎶 🫏 🐈 🐕 🏰 Thank you for taking us along for as long as you want to do this. Greetings from 🇨🇦
Don't change a thing. **** everyone else, wishing you everything you wish for yourselves. Have a Great 2024 looking forward to watching your adventures. Cheers Lynda
Who said, "You are boring"? Your dramatization of that comment was hilarious, but it is the furthest from the truth. So many, like myself, get most excited when we see that you have posted. You are witty, funny, creative, hardworking and you both share a love and enjoyment for being kind to nature and her creatures. Happy 2024 to you and your family!
OMG, ‘you are boring’…the clip following was phenomenal!!! You two are the antithesis of boring! Your channel, music, edit, content, animals, history…fascinating!!! Thank you so much for sharing as much as you do!!!
First of all Happy New Year to you both and of course your children. I discovered your channel while we were in lockdown and have viewed just about every video you've posted since. Whatever the recipe for a successful youtube channel is I'm not sure, but you guys are certainly cooking up a winner. Maybe having a pro chef in the house helps. I must ask, who picks the music for your channel? For me, it's possibly the secret sauce. Love it. Anyway, enough of my nattering, here's to a happy, healthy and successful 2024 both for yourselves and everyone else. Cheers!
Thank you for the Q&A, it was great to hear some of the questions and answers. One of my favourite parts of your channel are the animals. The cats are just so adorable....I am truly a cat lover. I also enjoy all of the DIYs, your humour and the camera and drone shots. Thank you so much for taking us along with you and hope you continue for a long time!!
The comment 'you are boring' after explaining the differences between US and Europe and how you prefer France. Don't listen to people who think that, there's plenty of other chateau channels for them. You are both easy listening, honest and down to earth people. It would be sad if you stopped your channel because of them. I can dream through your videos about that lovely property you have, the beauty of your mature trees and your wonderful animals.
I immediately emailed Magnolia to let them know how disappointed I was that they are not featuring you on a DIY channel. You guys are one of the best!!
I think your chateau is the perfect size. So many of the others are just too large. I can’t imagine trying to keep up a place that large. Your land is gorgeous and your outbuildings are beautiful. Thank you for sharing with us.
I echo tons of other voices, iterating all the lovely, positive attributes of your delightfully entertaining and illuminating vlogs on living and thriving in the French culture, having transplanted from the madness of California! Today, I was utterly transported to serenity, viewing the stunning beauty and talented editing of your trip to the newly discovered beach. I was born and grew up in a coastal town of Oregon State, where our family went to the beach nearly weekly. The tide, the waves, the rocks, sand, and tide pools with the many dancing lights reflecting from the sun... it all resonates with my treasured childhood memories. Even in my late 7th decade of life, I'd be in heaven spending even a day at your dazzling new beach! Thank you for sharing your fascinating, illuminating, educational DIYing, and entertaining life with your RU-vid extended family. You both definitely put a smile on my wrinkled face! From Barb in the PNW, USA!🥰
We don’t find California “mad”. We ride our bikes on the beach path, we hike in the mountains, and this is in December, January, Februrary, and all the other months.
Apparently 30,000 plus viewers don’t find you boring-I’m always amused watching your channel and appreciate your effort in sharing your renovation projects. I hope you don’t get tired of making your vlogs anytime soon! ❤️❤️
Hi I'm seeing this for the first time and in the intro it said they had four humans. So I'm wondering who the other two are because they say it's just the two of them but in the beginning they said poor humans and 15 in total or something okay. I'm just wondering if they have children at the chateau as well? 😃👋
Happy New Year! First, I don't think y'all are boring, more like refreshing. I follow a couple other vlogs for the same reason I watch yours. Relaxing and not fast paced. We live in TN and it is all fast paced. Thank you. Second, I usually don't watch Q & A s. Find them really boring but yours was interesting and entertaining. Hope you have an uncomplicated renovation for the cottage.
We’ve moved to Spain from Australia and it’s similar. Slow pace of life, appreciating what’s important and people are just so polite here, we fit in more than we did back home. Like we’ve found where we are supposed to be. I’d never go back.
I love you guys, enjoy seeing your escapades, and triumphs. Than you so very much for sharing with us. Low Key, and real is what I like to see. All the best to your entire family!
Boring? Rubbish. You're My favourite channel on RU-vid by quite a long way. I love the fun, silly, throwaway comments and how Lincoln reacts. Keep it up exactly as you are. Greetings from North Cumbria, England.
Anyone who would call you boring is just green with envy. Who wouldn’t be envious of your beautiful relationship with your spouse, peaceful lifestyle, and an absolutely gorgeous home? 🙋♀️ You two make a dynamite design team because you both have impeccable taste! I certainly would watch your tv show; however, with unreality of reality tv here in the USA, I can certainly understand why you wouldn’t want to be bothered with the nonsense. We’re fortunate that you allow us into the inner workings of your lives. You don’t owe us that privilege. I hope you will continue to share with us and to those who want to heap their negativity on you- BUGGER OFF! Happy New Year!❤
Tracey, I agree with everything you said, Especially the BUGGER OFF! The between 200,000 and 2,000,000 answer was SO perfect for such a rude question, wasn't it!!
Your vlogs are awesome! Hope you don’t stop, as I look forward to all of your posts. You, your chateau, and pets are a joy to watch. Happy New Year from the west coast of Canada. 🎉 🇨🇦
I love your spontaneity, your humour, your taste in decoration and your choice of music (the other day, I listened to Jonny Greenwood until 3:30 a.m. after you gave me his name … couldn’t find that one, but I discovered others… he is absolutely amazing, I wonder how come I missed him). thank you for showing our beautiful region with amazing beaches (we are only 37 mn away to the west). Happy New Year to all ❤
Great video. The drone footage of the beach was beautiful. So nice you can visit from time to time. Much love to your family and all the critters. Looking forward to your new stories in 2024 ❤
Happy New Year. I just love you guy’s. Your humor, candor, wit,style, your relationship. I love your cinematography. The beauty you capture in your surroundings. Oh your selection of music. Your love of animals. So much to enjoy and learn. I hope you continue sharing your lives with us. I keep telling my husband to solidify his Italian grandmother relation to see if we could get citizenship and do such a thing? But she’s passed away and I don’t know. Wishing you all the best.
Don’t give up! My 47 year old daughter has been getting everything together to apply for citizenship to Italy! It is a lot of work since my husbands father, her grandfather, died years ago. Fortunately we have a lot of papers & pictures of his and that’s been a goldmine. Once she has citizenship in Italy I am pushing for her to go to France and I can visit🥰🤗❤️
I’m always happy to see when you’ve posted a new video. I love everything about your channel. The shots of the beach had so many of the colors that you have used in decorating the chateau…the greys, both dark and light, sand, mossy greens, etc. Lovely!
@@kathyeyesopen4078 I really would prefer to just be able to go & stay if possible. We have 2 dogs and 5 cats as well. I don’t like the idea of waiting for visa stays, having to do a business, traveling back and forth, having to purchase a house there & still paying a mortgage here, plus we are retired.
@@taunyawren8020 I understand . We’re both retired too plus I use a wheelchair and unfortunately it seems that getting around France is very difficult if handicapped. Still If I were 20 years younger I would have loved to do what they are doing. So I just live vicariously watching them. 😊
I love your channel, it's very refreshing! I absolutely loved the response or should I say nonresponse to the comment, 'You are boring'...I just smiled and thought that was brilliant! Keep doing what you're doing! I think the cats are telling their friends...hey come on over, this is a wonderful place to be...good food...good people, what's not to love! Thank you so much, appreciate all the hard work putting together these videos. Take really good care, stay well! Lots of love Kathy x💕 (Ontario, Canada)
I live in the States and I would have totally watched your show if it was on the Magnolia channel. It would have been better than some of the shows they have on there right now.😂
I'm glad you are still willing to post these videos. Your channel is so much better than others which are clearly enslaved by the algorithms. You are open enough to show your life, warts and all, with humor.
Enjoyed the video. Thanks for taking such good care of the four-legged critters. They ARE a part of your family. The work you have done so far on your chateau is tasteful and beautiful. Enjoy your life, your critters, house and land. That's important, doing what you love and being where you want to be.
I watch 2 people who are renovating Chateaus, and I ran across yours a little over a year ago and watch every week. Of course, if you are putting your life out there, you will have to take the bad with the good! I think the property is beautiful and I am a cat lady, so I enjoy watching the animals and I like watching the rooms get done! Who doesn't want to be happy in the Country? I would love to be there! Happy New Year and stay well!
Your place is beautiful. I always wanted to move to France and buy a place to renovate, maybe a cottage or a manor house, but I finally realized that I had gotten old and had to put that dream on a shelf. But it's great to watch you guys doing it. Keep up the good work.
I really enjoy your channel, not boring at all. That was enjoyable learning more about you and the animals. I’m a cat person - or a crazy cat lady as my family call me - so was pleased to hear an update on the outdoor cats - the newest tabby is so friendly and pretty - thank you for helping them all. Look forward to following your journey in 2024.
I’m sure that it’s rude to ask about money, expenditures, etc., anywhere in the world. If not, it should be. Love what you’ve done so far. I didn’t recognize your chateau at first. Happy New Year to you both, the girls, and the 4 legged.
I love watching historic homes being renovated, especially chateaus, plus I so enjoy you two! The donkeys, the indoor cats, feral cats, the dogs - just love how they are a part of your "family." Anyone who cares for animals like you folks do is okay by me. Love your wit and how you two "play together" so well and you're so down to earth! My favorite episode was when Lincoln put up the macrame swing chairs under the tree. I almost fell off my chair from the laughter! You just continue being you and I'll keep watching. And, it's really cool that you draw the line by keeping your children off screen. God meet all your needs in 2024.
Happy New Year! Thank you for this channel. I enjoy your sense of humour, honesty, and letting us peek into your lives for just a bit. Wishing all the best for 2024 - happiness, joy, completing projects, low vet bills, and inner peace.😊
Amanda & Lincoln, Once again thanks for sharing your incredible Journey... The simplicity and the authenticity of your Q&A presentation(s) with us, your audience is simply what makes this an most enjoyable experience to watch...Please "Keep Plowing" Forward, as we are with you all the way. Lastly, hope you and your family had a blessed Christmas & Holiday Season...Wishing you & yours a very Happy New Year🎉Here's to an even brighter & happier future ahead... Cheers🌟
I understand your cat situation. We have a barn near the road and people seem to think it's a great place to dump cats. Pregnant cats. At one point we had 9 and our 2 dogs. We are at 6 right now and I hope I didn't just jinx us by saying that!!
I love you guys and your laid back, and often funny approach.. I've said this before on other sites, if those rude people only surf the sites to cause misery, then go away leave these people alone and let us enjoy this entertainment!
Thank you for caring for the stray cats they never asked for that life did they. I hope the vet fixes all of them for you just so the multiplying gets under control. I love them all so precious. God bless so much for doing that and caring! ❤xB Cats are not filthy they are very fastidious and care very much abt being well groomed. Its humans that make them unkept because they don't care which is inhuman. 😢xB from Canada an good job on filming!
We bought our Brittany house sight unseen, though we did investigations about the area and had reports made about the condition of the fabric. We were not disappointed and still love going to Brittany each year from Australia for the Summer months.
Love this channel and your renovations to date. Instead of going true to period, the decorating reflects our times and how a modern chatelaine would approach it. You guys are doing you and I love that. Love the rescue animals. Brave souls to take on such a challenge, but right for you.
Thinking about what you shared about a TV show. Their loss. I think you are both motivational and interesting. I love that you have all the animals. Good humans. Keep on keeping on! But I get that if it’s not fun you’ll stop. I hope you don’t. I really enjoy the quality of your productions and sense of humor. All best to you in the year ahead!
