In the media
Press
A few times along the way, our slightly bonkers adventure has made it beyond the village - and into the press.
From buying an abandoned hamlet in rural Normandy to appearing on television and sharing the ongoing restoration with thousands of people around the world, our story has occasionally caught the attention of newspapers, magazines and other publications.
Here you’ll find a selection of articles and features about us, the village and the adventure so far.
In print and on the box
Scans of the cuttings, as they were printed.
À deux, ils rachètent et font revivre tout un hameau
A reportage by Élise Da Silva Griel on the front page and across page 6: how a British couple bought the hamlet of La Buslière for 26,000 euros, opened their first guest stay in May and set about restoring the bread oven, the barns and the cider press.
Localité heroes
Cecile Metcalf tells the story behind the first episode of Help! We Bought a Village: two landscape gardeners from Kent, a forgotten hamlet in rural Normandy and the whole of La Buslière bought for 24,000 euros.
Normandy landing
This week's pick: the plucky Brits rescuing unloved villages across Europe, and how Paul and Yip came over the hill, saw a 10,000 pound cottage in La Buslière and ended up buying the rest of the hamlet.
Pick of the day: Help! We Bought a Village
A four-star pick for the new Channel 4 daytime series, and for the two landscape gardeners from Kent who bought an abandoned settlement in Normandy. And boy does it need work.
Welcome to our village
Kathryn Knight on a pair of long-term renters who could not afford a home in the UK and now own a whole French hamlet: six cottages, two barns, a bread oven, a well and a pig shed, and a restoration measured in decades.
Online
Stories published on the web, newest first. Every link opens on the publisher's own site.
Yip and Paul's adventure, La Buslière France (opens in a new tab)
British couple buys French village to create a luxury glamping destination (opens in a new tab)
Caravan couple snap up entire French village for £22k after living in caravan (opens in a new tab)
British couple buy entire village in France for £22,000 (opens in a new tab)
Brit couple go from living in caravan to buying entire French village for £22k (opens in a new tab)
Couple who couldn't buy a house in UK buy entire French village for £12,000 (opens in a new tab)
Brit couple buy entire French village for £22,000 after living in pal's caravan (opens in a new tab)