Before I moved to the UK with my husband and family, I had visited once before on a cycling trip with my church group. Even as a 16-year-old, I had a sense that I would one day return and that it was where I belonged. I'd seen all of the Jane Austen adaptations with my Anglophile grandmother, and my husband and I had watched Downton Abbey.
Limousin, in the centre of France, is part of the super region Nouvelle Aquitaine and has three departments—Haute Vienne, Creuse, and Corrèze. All of them share an outstanding natural landscape of woodlands, green pastures, and deep valleys.
DeGeneres shared a humorous video on Instagram of sheep wandering into her living room, captioning it, "Our sheep keep coming inside. To be fair, we do have a piece of furniture that looks like a sheep, but that one doesn't try to eat our rugs."