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    Make yourself at home

    Sep 13, 2020 3 minutes
    PHOTOGRAPHY Ophelia Mikkelson Jones

    It was a classic standing-over-the-kitchen-sink moment. What if we sold our house and moved to the French countryside? Houses are cheap, I’ve looked online. A La Robe mainly sells to the US, I could run my business from anywhere…

    It took my partner Marc and I a few years to get a plan together, sell our house in Titirangi and fly from Auckland to the French embassy in Wellington to apply for visas. In the meantime, I attended the Alliance Française to get my school

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