{"id":1250,"date":"2014-04-27T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2020-10-20T07:57:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T11:57:41","slug":"why-guadeloupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/why-guadeloupe\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Guadeloupe?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Waterfall<\/a>

Waterfall near Souffri\u00e8re volcano<\/p><\/div>\n

People often ask why my husband and I decided to move permanently to Guadeloupe – and by permanently, I mean we are actually buying a piece of property to build a home and a small business. Up until now, we have always rented. Though we’ve lived two years or more in a few places – Morocco, France, Pennsylvania – we always knew that they were temporary homes. This time, we plan to stay. So, why Guadeloupe?<\/p>\n

There are several reasons, and perhaps the most important is also the most banal: we like the weather. I am tr\u00e8s frileuse<\/i>, as the French put it: very intolerant of cold. We would have liked to stay in France, but after 5 years, I realized it was just too cold. Hy\u00e8res has the Mistral, which can make even warm days chilly, so after a lot of research we moved to the warmest place dans l’Hexagone<\/i>: Menton, whose microclimate and protective mountains result in moderate winters. Even so, I was still cold and unhappy for several months of the year, so we had to look further afield.<\/p>\n