I went on a retreat in an 200-year-old French farmhouse to find the inspiration to write

Stuck for inspiration and staring at a blank document one drizzly morning in May, I decided I needed to find my mojo again.

So when an email inviting me on a week-long writing retreat landed in my inbox the very same day, I took it as a sign and, before you can say lined jotter pad, had booked myself on a flight to Carcassonne in the Occitania region (formerly Languedoc) of southern France.

I’m greeted at the airport by Moira Martingale, a British author and ex journalist. She set up ‘French House Party’ in 2007 and now runs writing and other courses from her 200-year-old farmhouse in the French countryside.

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