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Bobcat10 - we must be somewhere near you in Yorkshire!!!  We got back this Sunday!  We did have a great time, and some absolutely fantastic weather for the whole holiday but we came back to really high winds!! 

Already planning, or rather looking up ferry prices, for next year!

I watched "Little England" last monday, it seems to be like the series ITV did on The Lakes.

They featured 3 couples, the first met in the Dordogne and have ended up living in and managing a Chateau for the French owners who are retiring.   The second couple have a farm and decided to produce bacon & sausages to fill a gap in the market as he said he couldn't compete with the french farmers & butchers.   The third couple decided their "niche" was to run a mobile fish & chip trailer which they tow around the towns and villages. They are catering for the Brits, complete with Heinz, HP, Sarsons but I'm sure they said around 50% of their trade came from french people.  I thought the mobile fish & chip idea was better than setting up an English Bar/Cafe in one of the pretty towns. 

I'm going to watch the rest of the series with interest as we are thinking of visiting the area next year, it looks beautiful.

Maybe I'm missing something but we've been to Brittany several times and I can't say we've found it overun with Brits, there's usually a lot of Dutch but this year mainly French.

Quote: Originally posted by BobCat10 on 19/9/2011

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I'm all for 'when in Rome', leave England at home. Why on earth would anyone want Fish & Chips in France.

Even the French have started to avoid Brittany and do not class it as truly French.
I have a friend who has lived and worked in Aquitaine for the past 10yrs and she rarely rents out her properties in Brittany to anyone other than Brits, she has a European property letting business, based in Sanguinet.

"Brittany serves its purpose it satisfies a certain type of holiday maker which keep the rest of France clear"

 

And that certain type of holiday maker would be??

       

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Quote: Originally posted by BobCat10 on 19/9/2011

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Brittany serves its purpose it satisfies a certain type of holiday maker which keep the rest of France clear.

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I've got to admit that when i go to any foreign country I prefer not to hear or meet too many fellow Brits, or else what's the point of going abroad? 

I've got to admit that when I go abroad I want a truly foreign experience and prefer not to hear too many English voices, not because they offend me, but I want a change from what I experience during the rest of the year - otherwise I might as well stay in the UK!  For me, guaranteed hot sunshine is one of the less important holiday ingredients - primarily I want to experience a different culture. This is more difficult to achieve in France than most other European countries, but it is possible, even in Brittany.

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