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ClassifiedACCOMMODATION AVAILABLELarge riverside house in Chatellerault, France needs DIY expert/enthusiast to regain its glories. You can stay free of charge for 25 hours per week of work (all tools supplied). Superb riverside location, broadband, microwave, comfy beds, hot water etc. Write your novel there and get me a plaque. References required. Email to work out the details. Tuscany Lucca hills, long lease. Rustic house: four bedrooms, four baths plus big annex: two bedroom, two baths, empty of partially furnished. €2700 pcm. Anadalucia, Jaén mountain village house to let for a few months, writer/artisit looking for a quiet retreat? Comfortable, not luxurious. €500 pcm. Contact Stella. FOR SALECarcassonne, France. Writer, reader, critic. Perfect pied a terre, lock up and leave. Traditional construction, renovated with taste. Three bedrooms, private terrace, huge garage, calm district, 5 minute walk to centre/market square. 40 minutes Mediterranean. €210,000. Ireland. Residential Creamery, 3 acres. Needs renovation. River valley. 6 miles Bantry. Suit Studio, pottery. £200,000 O.N.O. Writer’s flat in Gothic Revival almhouses. Overlooking peaceful collegiate quadrangle, two minutes from Camberwell Art College. One bedroom, £185,000. Acorn Estate Agents, Camberwell. Writers retreat: fully furnished 70 ft narrowboat on semi-rural, residential mooring. Twelve mins. to Paddington BR. Bright and airy, 70ft garden with two out-buildings. One used as study/ spare bedroom. £75,000. Tel: 07775 860 934 or go to http://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk (ref.80493) for further information and pictures. HOLIDAYSFlorence, comfortable, quiet and central apartment, sleeps four. B&B Edinburgh for August Festivals. £35 pppn (two sharing). www.provencemagique.com Do not dream about it. BOOK IT. Sicily, Cefalu, delightful historic town. Two-room flat, sleeps two to three, town centre, extraordinary view over-looking sea. Rome and Paris Holiday Rentals: over 300 vacation apartments listed. www.romanreference.com or www.parisreference.com Paris – New Left Bank. Two-bedroom, courtyard apartment. Bibliothèque line,14 Métro. PARIS - LOVELY FLAT- £500/WK- EXCHANGE Tuscan farmhouse amid olives and vineyards. Close to medieval hilltop towns. Panoramic views. Perfect for local walks hot springs and Siena, Montepulciano and Pienza. Sleeps 4-12. Lovely rambling house in North Yorkshire to rent. Fantastic retreat for writers and artists. South-West France. Comfortable, stylishly restored cottage, sleeps two, tranquil, private, with expansive views, £150-£290 p.w. PERSONALSSeasoned woman 50s seeks adventure. Any age, anywhere. Surprise me. The purest expressions of my love are reserved for my cats. But if you’re a 45-55-year old new age mung-bean enthusiast, confident with party discourses that centre upon the mystical healing properties of charms and over-the-phone aura displacement diagnosis, why not write to floppy-hat wearing loon (F, 48) and win a place in my heart alongside Mr Tibbles IV and Queen Nefertiti of Moggy-St-Annes. An ancient Czech legend says that any usurper who places the Crown of Saint Wenceslas on his head is doomed to die within a year. During World War II, Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi governor of the puppet Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia secretly wore the crown believing himself to be a great king. He was assassinated less than a year later by the Czech resistance. I have many more stories like this one. I will tell you them all and we will make love. Man, 47. Eraserhead. Staplerfeet. Holepunchknees. Tipp-Exelbow. Lynch-inspired stationer (M, 35) seeks woman to 40 whose bedroom follows a strict manilla decorating scheme. Must have a Brazilian. My bruised heart can offer no bon mots in this jacquerie of whimsy – but I can belch the theme tune to The Bill. Man. Let this advert serve you as the Rosetta Stone of personal ads. Man, 38. What I did at a London Review Bookshop subscriber evening two years must never be talked about again. M, 46. The parrots in the Blues Match advert give me terrifying dreams. Easily-disturbed woman, 36. The author of this personal advert will be talking about it live via a satellite link in arthouse cinemas across the country on Feb 12, 2009. In my life-game of Scrabble the letters l,o,v and e are all missing. So too are q, u, and z. So if you’re ready to fall for dizty gamer (F, 37), or have a pet quetzal, write, with photograph and blank tiles, to PSYCHOANALYSIS‘The unexamined life is not worth living’. Reasonably priced Jungian psychotherapy, creativity mobilisation, dreamwork, mid-late-life reassessment. Central London, daytime or evenings. Please call 020 7735 2345 for more information. RESEARCHERHighly experienced Academic/Literary Researcher. PhD qualified. British Library Based. Excellent references available on request. SPECIALIST BOOKSELLERSWe buy & sell language books - Foreign, Celtic, English - from libraries to single items. Books Bought & Sold. Balkans, Russia, C.E. Europe, Central Asia from libraries to single items - travel, history, politics, culture, language. |
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