christopher N.

We are Christopher Nater and Kelli Prine, a married couple (33 years) who love France and have a life-long love of cats. First, the France part: 17 years ago Kelli spent a year by herself at university in Lyon and fell in love with France. Ten months into her stay, she announced she wanted to spend the last 2 months touring France; Christopher responded by buying a vintage small motor home (or “camping car” as you say in France) in California, remodeling it at our home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, driving it to the east coast of the United States and eventually shipping it by boat to Zeebrugge. Seven weeks later, Christopher flew to Belgium, retrieved the motor home and drove to Lyon to surprise Kelli with our “Petit Chateau Qui Roule” which became our miniature vacation home for the next 2 months. We had such a great time, we decided to store the motor home at a campground in the Loire Valley called Le Serpolin in Cléré-Sur-Layon. You may call the campground owners, Matthew and Donna-Marie Goddard +332 41 03 22 72 for a reference on us. In the ensuing 17 years, missing only a few times, we’ve hired cat-and-house sitters for our own home in Albuquerque, flown to France each summer, dusted off the motor home, chased out the field mice and camped our way around France for 7 or 8 weeks. What a way to travel! Now that we are both retired, we try to spend 6 months in France every year. In 2022 we discovered house sitting (through Nomador and TrustedHouseSitters.com) and our first year were accepted for a total of SIX house sits (5 in France and 1 in London), all concluded wonderfully. So wonderfully that every host family asked us to come back and sit for them again in 2024. In fact I’m writing this profile from a house sit in Lyon. Kelli and I are both retired with extensive experience with cats (2 spoiled Siamese twin sisters named Coco and Chanel.) We are experienced home owners; we own four houses in Albuquerque (live in one, rent the other 3) so we know what it means to properly care for a house. Christopher is handy with tools and enjoys gardening. Kelli enjoys watching him and loving on the cats.

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