How unexpectedly wonderful that your decision to move to France would end up and continuing to be this extraordinary life changing journey and experience, not for just you and the family but for us out here lucky enough to be along for the ride.

Lovely weather. Do have the water checked in the well. Never plant bamboo. It 'runs' everywhere. They are an absolute pain. Your idea of creating a park is excellent. Beautiful quality trees will be required.. You will be very busy for a long time to come. You will enjoy it. Good luck. Thank you for showing us.

So glad I found your channel…… I’m a fan of several Chateau owners in South France and seeing their renovations which are so beautiful ! Many trips to antique and brocante dealers for furniture, etc. Great tour of your property…. Thank you ❣️ Your plans sound amazing… long range goals as you’ve stated! Love your castle, glad you found one with turrets 😉. It’s beautiful !💕

It's such a beautiful piece of land. Parklike in places and nature trails in others. Very calm and tranquil. So much to wow guests and visitors. The outbuildings are amazing as well....many possibilities. Thanks for the tour. I found it really fascinating.

This was the best walking tour I have seen on You tube channels. The inserted maps were brilliant and give future guests a real sense of the magnitude of the property as well as the potential for endless activities depending on interests and physical abilities. Truly a spectacular place where as you said ‘only limited by the imagination’!

The room with the sink in in your outbuildings would be great for an outdoor kitchen to support your wedding feasts in the orangery, save you having to use the chateau kitchen, and also great for outside caterers to work in.

Nearly unlimited potential! Your Gem was worth the effort. What an adventure you have ahead as you create your park, spa, workshop, etc... Best, Brian

Thank you Karen and Bo for showing us your beautiful property.

WOW, that was an amazing walking tour! I can see why you fell in love with this chateau! The overlook is lovely and a sweet little cabin would be ideal! The chicken coop/piggery is charming! Get a tarp over that roof so it will stop deteriorating until you can get it repaired properly. The Orangery is stunning and that fireplace, stunning! I can see wedding receptions there! Just such a gorgeous place on the planet! Cheers!

I still think you have the best chateau and land. Thanks for the tour.

That high viewpoint would be great for picnics. Sunsets and outdoor weddings. That ruin is stunning

I think that if u take a stick of bamboo and put it into the ground for an arc, you will very soon have another grove of invasive bamboo. It might grow roots snd runners. I made a tiki bar for a fun party. But no sticking in ground.

What an amazingly beautiful and extensive property you have! You chose well for your chateau home.

That hay will make a wonderful mulch to enrich your soil.

🇨🇦 What a pleasure it is to watch you take us on your beautiful journey of your Queens Escape Castle, it is so stunning and the views are just amazing. Wishing yous all the best always, I look forward to future video's. Thankyou ❤

It's a fabulous and engaging property. What a blessing to be stewards of such a long history of humanity.

What a stunning beautiful property!

Thanks Bo and Karen what beautiful parkland you have, how lucky were you to snap this up. The potential is endless. For me I wouldn’t have bamboo on the property you will be a slave to it for the rest of your life! Enjoy your lovely home you deserve it!

Wow...your property is so beautiful, the location is amazing! Thank you for the tour!

I have been watching the videos. You struck pure gold with this property and the grounds. Congratulations! After seeing the other properties. You found the one you were really meant to have.

What a stunning property you have and I love that you have created walking trails and paths that guests can take advantage of . It really is stunning and I what a view from the plateau. It would be an incredible place to have a picnic or just take in nature! So happy for you both!! Cheers

Hi folks...great video tour of your land and buildings, well put together. 👌

An absolute gorgeous castle and grounds for lovely people! I am so glad I found your site!

Great vlog, very interesting, but forget the bamboo, so much work.

How l would love to be able to do a tour of France via all the beautiful Chateau’s, being able to spend a week in each one.

I agree. It's very difficult to control bamboo. I wouldn't plant it anywhere. It's very difficult to kill.

Thanks Bo and Karen for taking time to show us around your home, looking forward to visiting you soon xxx. Flo uk

Thanks for the tour of the land. It is magnificient and lots of potential. Love the views from the cliff.

Hello from Nashville, Tennessee! I like your land conservation efforts. If you think about it, you could put in 18 holes of golf! What fun that would be for your guest and your community! Just a thought! Y'all stay safe and healthy!

There is an English tree surgeon called Nick that Stephanie uses at La Lande. He also mulches and cuts the trunks for use as wood planks if you need that. He appears to be very competent as I observe. I have had quite a few large trees removed here in Australia so have some knowledge as an astute observer.

Wow . I didn’t realize the extent of the property. It’s very beautiful & interesting. Great job on the tour and Karen’s editing!

I love Bo’s hoodie. My daughter lives in Virginia Beach. You have a beautiful property!

LOL look at the Virginia Beach Sweatshirt! Cool, that's where I'm watching from!😁

My knees got a little weak when you two were up on the cliffs! 😁 Everything was so beautiful. Excellent vlog!

Stone cave suggestion is to use for a root cellar in the winter, amazing space for it....

What a beauty walk around your chateau. Thank you so much. Texas ❤

Wow! Thank you for the wonderful tour! An amazing property.

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Fantastic video it really gave a great feel for the whole property. It is so beautiful, fabulous views and in a lovely part of the Dordogne. There are so many opportunities. With those views it would be a wonderful spot for painting holidays. The plateau is a great asset with many view points. If you built a little cabin it would be nice to offer sunset drinks, leading guests up via various view points and arriving at the cabin where you could have tables and serve drinks and nibbles as guests watch the sunset. I am sure you will make a success of this venture as you have a beautiful property in a wonderful setting in a great location and seem to have plenty of imagination to create something special. Look forward to following your journey and hopefully coming to visit sometime.

Congratulations on a fantastic “ Tour “ and explanation of the Chateau grounds.

I know this may sound super crazy BUT…. I would put a hot tub/tubs in the building cut into the cliffs. I could imagine it being so cozy in the winter because the hot tub would help the building heat up and the summer the hot tubs heat turned off and the cliffs making it cool from the heat. I would set up a grill/fire pit close to the outside door and some tables and chairs. Open up the intro area and this could be a great little indoor/outdoor space that would be unique. It just needs a tiny clean up first 😉

Bamboo is extremely fast in growing but is also very useful. By splitting the trunks, you can bend, split, weave, cut into spikes, etc. This to make spikes for fencing, bend and split the bark itself to weave baskets or make lengths of split bark for a basket weave fence of any height. This might be a savings instead of a chore. I've been watching another vlogger (Primitive Skills) who has a vast bamboo forest to use for his different projects. Fencing, gardening, baskets, fishing, etc. Each time I watch, I learn something new. Bamboo is also a fiber that is spun for yarn. You might be able to sell parts of it to such manufacturers, like wool from sheep. These are just a few ideas.

Good morning everyone. Hi Bo and Karen thank you very much for the tour. As a mechanic I can se the possibility for a very nice workshop and indoor parking space for classic cars. The piece of France you have is beautiful. Best of luck a Swed in France.

Very interesting ,enjoy ,Thank you ,i felt asthough i was walking with you ,❤

Very nice and complete grounds tour, lovely usable property in fairly good shape. I love how you pay attention to your guests ages and fitness levels when designing your grounds and park, nice to see.

Very interesting Bo! Compliments to the videographer! 😉 Rikki Biermann, Pretoria, South Africa 🇿🇦

Lovely place The chicken house would be a charming chapel

thank you for the tour, so many possibilities

Whatever you do, don't plant bamboo. It is a noxious weed which you will never get rid of. Together with wisteria and ivy that grows like weeds you must be careful what you plant.

Read my comments on being able to do shutters front and back immediately so you don’t have to wait for one side to dry before you turn over.

Y'all are such a handsome couple! Keep up the good work!

Absolutely amazing property and you have lovely ideas for its future! You two must feel like you won the lottery with this beautiful find!🤩😍🏤🌟🤗

This was such a wonderful tour! You have a beautiful castle and a beautiful interesting piece of property. Your plans sound amazing. I hope you just leave the little cave empty or put neat things in there for kids to discover. 💕

This makes me wish I was there experiencing it in person! The château is so beautiful but your property is just as special.

I have to say I saw the video of when u first brought the Chateau and looking now u have done alot of work the place looks very tidy so much better . The full tour was fantastic and thank u for showing us of what we could do if we came and stayed .

Thank you for your interesting tour of your lovely land around your home. You both have worked hard since you have been there, its looking great already. Looking forward to seeing what you will be doing next, take care Jones family. ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Thank you for the tour and your very interesting commentary. Your future plans for the park and out buildings sound great, good luck.🍷🍷

Fascinating, so many outbuildings, the property is so diverse, thank you for taking us to the plateau which offers a beautiful view and an understanding of why you bought the chateau. Beware of the bamboo. Michele

So, I'm watching this...Beau describing the chateau grounds...and I notice his VA Beach sweatshirt, lol! Just 2 hours from me in Chincoteague and I do travel there a fair amount during the year!

Your property is lovely! Thank you for the tour.

Bonjour once more! A maze would be a wonderful addition to your property. In Asia I have seen them laid out using creeping bamboo and with regular upkeep, they can look spectacular and fast growing. You could incorporate Bo's idea of the bamboo lined walkway into a maze with overhanging tunnels, twists, turns, dead ends, and a secluded seating area in the centre. In your 'park' area, I hope you will incorporate a herb garden for cooking and physic herb garden for medicinals of interest. Most historical châteaux would have had both. Perhaps when your garden park come to fruition, general day visitors might be permitted to explore. This would bring in extra revenue. Children would love the unique bamboo maze experience, with the Orangery used for afternoon teas. I hope you will also plan for your own vegetable garden and wildflower meadows, both of which can be utilised in your wedding preparations. You made no mention of a swimming pool, but I am sure you have eventual plans for one. Bonne nuit, dors bien from the Secret Château in Normandie. X

Lovely Chateau I hope you are very successful there and have a wonderful lifestyle. You’re making great progress!

Fabulous property and out buildings. Good luck in your decision -making to turn them into working buildings for others to enjoy.

Virginia Beach! (We’re on Eastern Shore, but close enough!)

the well is for cultivation.make some vegitable or grapes and fruites plants! beautiful. thank you!

How fun would that be to bike ride or walk the property and have a small picnic lunch along the way. And just enjoy the quiet.

what a wonderful walk around. Such an interesting tour. I imagine it must feel lovely living in such an expansive place. I remember when we first moved down from Newcastle NSW to Tasmania, our 6 acres felt enormous after our 700 square meters suburban block! Now, I feel like I could live on 100 acres quite easily. I must say that it looks like Australia in the middle of summer with how brown and dry everything is, instead of the beginning of spring!

Great tour. Thank you 😊

your property is spectacular!!!

Any vege garden? Fruit forest? 😁😁 Huge ground. Thanks for the tour.😀

It would be traditional to have a circular water fountain as I’ve seen many chateau formal gardens feature. Yes, I agree with the other comment I’ve seen too many chateau owners battle bamboo. I would use another type of small floral tree to line the park walkways.Nowadays ,people even have smaller,lilac or hydrangeas formed into trees.

Wonderful tour. One of the best I have seen and the maps are most helpful..Please keep on top of the bamboo as it will take over...I realize you are aware but 'just sayin' as it is endless.

Perhaps you must contact the tree surgeon Nick from Chateau Lalande who is amazing and has transformed the forest at Lalande and is helping Dan at his Chateau on Escape to Rural France 🇫🇷

Beautiful landscapes

Thankyou Bo Karen For The Lovely Walking Tour So peaceful Love It. You’ve got plenty to keep you both very busy you can scream and shout and fall out but nobody would know nobody around just fields and walks💕👌

Very impressive. Beautiful property. Great tour. Thank you

Nice tour. Beautiful place with so much potential!

Thank you Bo and Karen, for the amazing tour of your beautiful property!! I do have a few suggestions for a few things 1. I absolutely love what you have done with putting in a walking path, I think more of your guest would be tempted to use the walking path if there where well placed benches along the path. The reason for this suggestion; I suffer from two debilitating autoimmune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosis spondylitis) as well as fibromyalgia and a handful of other stuff, if I were to be able to travel to France and spend time in your chateau, I would never be able to take advantage of the walking path without making quite a few stops along the way to rest. I’m sure there are others who would be in the same situation with other medical issues. 2. The place on the bluff is a stunning view, I can just imagine setting there with some fresh fruit, summer sausage, cheese and a nice bottle of wine (or in my case, a can of Pepsi or a cold bottle of water! LOL), maybe sometime in the future, you can offer such a package for an additional cost. 3. That large space, I believe it is above the barn, would be an awesome space for a gym/workout place that could possibly be a continuous source of income if you charge a small admittance fee each time someone from the town wants to use the gym to work out. 4. I noticed the difference of the wood in the Orangery immediately!! It looks amazing!! Unfortunately, I think for you to get restrooms in there, without taking up any valuable space from either room, you may have to put restrooms behind the Orangery or you may have to actually build a building for them off to the side. I also think you would do best with 3 or 4 stalls for both the men and women, just to insure there are enough spaces to accommodate a large group. 5. It’s too bad the chicken house is in such bad shape, it would make an adorable little cottage! 6. No matter what your final decisions are for your castle, I know it’s going to be spectacular!! 7. Have fun and enjoy!! Thank you both for allowing us, all, to live vicariously through you and your journey’s. Brightest Blessings.

Oh dear…..I would caution you about adding more bamboo. It will take over your garden plans. In fact, if it were me, I would get rid of any and all bamboo on the property as soon as possible. Otherwise, your plans sounds awesome and you and future generations will love the park.

Waw!!! Sikke en smuk natur i har købt , jeres lange søgen med bump på vejen, var det hele værd, sikke en natur skøn perle i nu er de heldige ejer af Tillykke og tak for og dele jeres rejse 🍄🌻🌍🌾

Thank you for including the map shots shown throughout your stroll indicating exactly where you are as you traversed your handsome grounds. When you commenced the tour, I was surpised that such a grand chateau had such an UN-grand main entrance, which was explained when your toured us past the orginal driveway, now hidden behind that building? Although the wall surrounding the property is random fiedstone, the lighter coloured stone piers that originally held the gates are of fine cut of stone blocks with handsome plinths and caps, likely crafted by the stonecutters, lwhile building the chateau itself. Since they are barely visible, nor of any use in their original location, but appear to be in fine condition, had it occurred to you to relocate them to to your current main entrance? This would be quite easy to accomplissh, as they are basically stacked fitted pieces, and would only require two poured cement bases at their new location? You might also add an electrical cable down the drive allowing lanterns to be added, and/or to illuminate the signage, to better welcome guests arriving after dusk. It would be interesting to source some original surveys or old photos of your property, as I have the further suspicion that, where those old gate posrs are now, is NOT where they were originally erected nor ever intended to be? There is something incongruous in how those fine cut stone piers appear to have been "stuck into" that rough fieldstone wall of a different style & time? In view of the elaborate detail seen in the chateau's construction, there should also have been flanking walls in at least the same matching stone,, or at least the feidstone walls would have been stuccoed for a finer finish? In view of that I would further conjecture that someone has already done what I am suggesting to you? And that they were moved to where they now stand, for a more likely utilitarian purpose of supporting the large"missing iron gates, which, as evidenced by that huge remaining forged iron hook, would require piers of that mass to support them? If this idea is at all of interest to you, might I suggest as a point of reference, another recent chateau video channel on this exact topic: On a "How to renovate a Chateau" episode from one month ago, entitled: "Building New Gates for our French Chateau"" owners Phillip & Anna (also missing THEIR own driveway entry-portes completely!) design, source & then record the construction of new ones with piers quite similar to yours, along with the short missing flankin wing walls i alluded to? (In their episode immediately prior to the one noted above, they show how/where they researched the design.There are also 3 or 4 other commensurate projects on other Chateau channels which are both relocating existing gates as well as brand new construction. You are fortunate as you appear to have two complete piers in fine condition that only need a new base and a skilled mason. Returning to your old entrance drive, that handsome cross atop the stone base (which you did not mention anything about?) is typical of those seen at crossroads thoughout France and all over Europe, As yours, which along with you old driveway, appears almost "marooned" in a now seldom used isolated area, but with the other lanes & roadways leading away from it. it seems as if there was some major realignment or closure of the surrounding roadway network which is also the reason why YOUR driveway is where it is now, and would explain the abandoned appearance of what must have been at one time a much busier intersection? I apologize for what I had intended as merely a brief comment, has morphed into an...essay? I hope I have not bored you senseless! lol I very much enjoy your videos and look forward to more of them. Especially more of your wonderfully "annotated" property tours (where you masterfully explain EXACTLY where you are, & thus the perspective from where WE are viewing it , WITHOUT the use of (or need for!) ANY aerial drone footage!!) LOL Perhaps you could be persuaded to tour a few "other" Chateaus where even after watching lots of their vids, its still a mystery guessing WHERE on the property or even within their manse they might be!?

You have a beautiful property

Great vlog! 👍🇨🇦

Nice tour, great graphics to show position and attractive surroundings with stunning views. Look forward to the next sundowner drink on “King’s Landing”. / Per

Amazing!

Thankyou Bo K

wonderful area! lucky,beautiful! consult civil experts( law) for the contract with formerse!

great tour, what a beautiful property with so much vision for the future

You need a mangle iron, you just feed the sheets between two rollers and it does what you want wrinkle free linens

Great Tour! You did a really good work with filming and editing and map was really handy to follow on this walk :) what a gorgeous view up to the hill! After sun goes down, what a thrilling night it would be spending time looking at stars and planets with some telescope and binoculars, don't you think? Please, think twice before building a swiming pool : water will become rare and a lot more expensive for those who use a lot (that's our french president said few days ago).

This is a stunning property and so much potential and you are so blessed to have purchased it . Good luck and God bless.❤️🙏

Wonderful tour of a heavenly property. Thank you. May I suggest that the very repetitive music be changed or varied?

Also you need a golf cart for disabled people like myself that would love the outdoors but couldn’t walk or bike.the little cave turned into a cool 🥶 reading nook

Wow. Such a Huge property Bo. I hope you fly a drone around your property incase u get TENT squatters hiding out camping for free. I was just going to suggest u make a HELI🚁 PAD FOR GUESTS AND U JUST SAID U WOULD👍. BAMBOO. SEEMS TO BE COMMON AT CHATEAUS. A COUPLE FROM Chateau Le Ferte had a big Grove of BAMBOO ALSO BY AN OUT BUILDING. THEY ALSO HAVE SOME WALNUT TREES!! IS THE RIVER ON UR PROPERTY AT THE CLIFFS It appears you have a busy driving roadway next to ur property!! A fire wood cave!! Very natural cave.NICE! Is there alot of Mice🐁 or 🐀 RATS ON THE OLD OUTBUILDINGS?

You can land small aircraft on the open fields

Will Italian Cypress grow in your area? They would look nice delineating certain spaces.

Oh, my, I have to echo the cry “of oh not bamboo”. It is terribly invasive. You’ll be kept busy full time keeping it under control. Please, Do more research…love your channel. Your park plan sounds lovely, (except the bamboo). … from PA, USA.

Wonderful tour. The maps helped to be oriented on the property. That bamboo is bad stuff. The old woodshed dug into the stone reminds me a bit of a grotto. A large pool for swimming would be unique there. Bikes available would be terrific. Is kayaking allowed on the river? Looking forward to following you on this journey

That old hay would be good for mulch on your garden beds. There are non invasive types of bamboo available so I have heard. I think anything invasive (including ivy) is a case of enjoy now regret later. Imagine having to employ someone to control it, when you no longer can or are just too busy. You could consider native plantings/trees to survive hard times for the distant areas from the castle for ease of maintenance. In the end, your decision of course. Great tour, best wishes.

How blessed are you guys (and those who will be able to afford to stay with you)??? What a magnificent property!!! Love the fascinating out houses (farm buildings). Thanks for the lovely walk about.