Hostlife Wisdom - La Belle Vue

“Living this life is all about very hard work. So, how do you become a person that can handle it? First, I think that you have to be a problem solver and an entrepreneurial person. If you have gone through many hard things in life it helps. Then you have failed and been down before. Learned from it and that it is not the end of the world if you fail with something. It is part of the process. You can not be to focused on all the details because then you will drown in it. You need a vision of where you want and then accept that you don’t have 100% control of the process to get there. If I would have known all the difficulties beforehand I would never have done it. Some people want a lot of security and stability around them. I do as  well, however, I try to identify the big risks with a decision. Does it affect my health, my economy or my family? My stability comes from my kids and my husband. I try to gather input from people I trust and make some sort of calculation for a decision. When I decided if I should follow this b&b dream I talked to my neighbor, who works at a bank. He went through the budget and said that it was going to go great. I asked two former colleagues from an advertising agency if they thought that I was going to like it and be stimulated. They both thought I was going to love it.”

Yvonne Tenninge 
Host since 2014, 6 units 
La Belle Vue, Neffiés, France
Photos by: Agnes Maltesdotter & us.