France Show

So we, Leggett Immobilier, had a stand at the France Show and it coincided with the worse weather to hit Britain since the 14th century ....... or there abouts.

My husband runs an airport to resort transfer company taking people to and from the ski resorts so you can imagine the fun he had! Meanwhile I, on the TGV, sailed through the worst without much aggravation and arrived in London only a couple of hours late and without any real hassle – well done TGV and Eurostar.

The Ibis Hotel on the other hand popped me in a room that was in competition with Siberia and on complaining politely on several occasions that it was too cold to sleep it took them an hour to even check out my room and that only after I marched down to the reception in my socks (and some other clothes of course). Once I’d stood in reception for a while giving them the run down on my thinking about their service they finally changed me into a nice warm comfortable room where I passed a relatively pleasant stay - so no harm done! It’s not all glamour being an estate agent you know..... I even had a hole in my sock which I noted was being looked at by another resident in the foyer..... happily I didn’t have my name badge on at that point.

Trevor Leggett, the patron, big cheese, grand chef, owner of Leggett Immobilier (just in case you hadn’t worked that out) was treating us to a meal out each night and the team reacted like 5 year olds in a sweet shop - the first night’s choice was Chinese.

We are deprived of the type of quality Chinese available in London and pretty much between us ate the entire menu. We had satay, seaweed, crispy duck, dumplings, prawns, and..... that was just my starters ....... the food arrived ...... we were happy pigs at the trough.

You can see how much the food meant to me because I’m also going to tell you that we had an Indian the 2nd night, good place the Lilly Indian, I recommend it wholeheartedly. A resounding quietness descended at our table when the food arrived whilst we contentedly chomped our way through the piles of goodies that kept arriving at the table – but don’t worry – we ate it all - as you will note from our empty table!

Back to the show. Great fun.

You meet the nicest people both visiting and working on the other stands. With Leggett having built their core business in the south west of France the vast majority of visitors were for that area but the ski team did good with a steady stream of enquiries from genuine buyers – results will follow I’m sure.



My most popular chalet was the one based in St Martin de Belleville, a 3 bedroom chocolate box ski chalet at a very reasonable 682,500€.



There were some other that kept coming up and the enormous 7 bedroom ski chalet in Courchevel was a hit too.

It was a laugh, it was a success. Next year we’ll be at the ski show as well so pop that in your diaries now.