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Yes, Otley too - but over the border in North Yorkshire.  We have a Leeds postcode, but pay our council tax to Harrogate!

I work for a friend who has a small local company, internet based, and I manage to work whilst away, keeping my job going in the odd hour here and there at some time each day during the week.  Only once have we paid for WiFi and that was whilst hosting a Caravan Club tour at Chateau du Gandspette, where I had to pay 3 euros an hour!

We're in Weston.  We're spoiled really, living somewhere scenic even if the local government arrangements are a bit odd!  We do benefit from the old-fashioned service we get from Harrogate in terms of street cleaning, rock salt deliveries, and drain-cleaning and I think our bills are lower than Leeds!!  And until very recently we had proper dustbins which the bin men carried out of your garden and brought back again every week!

We've been holidaying in France for thirty-odd years, firstly ready-erected tents,  and a caravan since 1993.  We like the more 'scenic' parts of France - rugged hills and wildness, which reminds me more of home so we love the Massif Central and the upland areas of the southern Languedoc - though we do like the beaches on the Med too as the sea is much warmer.  We met a French man at the Devonshire Fell a few weeks ago and he said the scenery around here reminded him of his home area in the Auvergne - but with more tourists!

We're sort of 'unmanicured' caravanners - we have just a sun canopy, no groundsheet, and live mostly outside, cooking under the canopy in the heat (or occasionally in the rain).  We love the informality of most French campsites.  No 'jockey-wheel' to the white marker post there - just find a pitch, any pitch, and put yourself on it, however you choose.  We also like the facilities provided.  We go out of high season, but still like campsites with a pool and bar, small shop and good value restaurant if possible, and we find plenty of those using the ACSI Card.  We've been on one site in late May/early June where only ten pitches were occupied and we had the pool to ourselves for most of the holiday! 

When are you planning on going?