The Compleat Anglo in the Pays Basque

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Sunday, 1 November 2009

27. All Saints Day

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1st November 2009 . Yesterday, I went to watch Aviron Bayonne, the local rugby union club, play Toulon (Jonny Wilkinson's new club). Un...
Wednesday, 2 September 2009

6. The house

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Every summer for years, we'd base ourselves in the same small village that we'd found in the foothills of the Pyrenees. For us it w...

4. Bayonne

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I should have mentioned at the outset that we did drag ourselves around countless estate agents and went through the long-winded process of...
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Madame and I experienced a 'coup de foudre' the first time we visited the Pays Basque (aka the French Basque Country) together - so much so that we started planning our next holiday there as we were driving away. After a few more visits, we concluded that this was where we were going to live one day, once the necessity of having to earn a living was a thing of the past. In mid-2007, we sold up in the UK and we finally realised our long-held dream to move to here. It's everything we ever hoped it would be and it's probably the best decision we've ever made - we've absolutely no regrets. As I can't see myself ever returning to England, I thought I should become part of society here (eg, the right to vote in local and national elections) and so I applied for French citizenship around 2018. I was delighted to receive it a couple of years later as it meant I was no longer a 'bird of passage' and my position here was secure.
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