The Compleat Anglo in the Pays Basque

France's best-kept secret

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Wednesday, 2 May 2012

184. Après moi, le déluge

2nd May 2012 . It looks like the weather has finally turned warm and dry again here. In common with much of the rest of western Europe we...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

151. An English lawn in the Pays Basque

As it was 15th June 2011 . It's been a quiet week in the Pays Basque (with apologies to Garrison Keillor !) Starting a lawn from...

Thursday, 19 August 2010

79. The brown brown grass of home

16th August 2010 . I've been trying to encourage the lawn in our garden to grow green and weed-free for the past few years but I...

Wednesday, 21 October 2009

25. Smoking & Joints

21st October 2009. We’re the warmest place in France today at 21C.. Paris is down at around 12C. I thought I’d give Madame a break ...

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Pipérade: Bayonne, France; 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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