THIS IS US

Belebat, the family home

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Hello there, this is us. Two strangers who fell in love and decided to bet on it and get married.

Jeff then left New York and I left Buenos Aires. We moved to London and bought our first house together. Roman, Leighton and JJ came to our lives nine summers later as we planned our last move ...here, to Belebat, where we are now living our very own fairytale.

This is us, a real-life testimonial that love will always win, dreams DO come true and NO is not an answer.

history of a neglected jewel

Chateau de Belebat

The history of our beautiful Château and the cast of characters woven into it, takes place deep within the lush forest of Chinon in the fruitful Loire Valley.

It is the history of a wealthy Duke, his best friend and their new beginning …a musketeer and his brother, a noble bodyguard of a 17th century Queen …a father and son beheaded on the guillotine …and a modern-day chatelaine who, rumor has it in the Valley, torched his own chateau before acquiring a new identity in America!

It is the history of a house that many centuries ago was transformed into a family home for a wifeless man with two adopted children …and the contemporary story of a new family with three adopted little boys, embarked on a restoration journey to turn this neglected ruin back into a home where children’s laughter floats, bread is baked, and friends raise a glass of wine pressed from grapes growing right outside its heavy gates.

and so it begins, once upon a time...