In reply to your question, yes we are very happy in France. Where would we be if anywhere else, well it would be UK. We have lived here full time now for three years and love it. Yes, of course there are things that wind you up, things you dont like, people that are difficult, but that is life. On balance it is great and I am still not fluent speaking French. I have to say I find lots of the people are not anything like as friendly as you expect, but that is often the way in Southern England too, so no point worrying about it. On balance I like the country, the food and the wine, if I have any gripe at all it is that the summer is too hot and I spend too much time in the summer behind stone walls to avoid the heat, but guess that must just be me. It is only 4 hours to get back home to Uk if I need to visit family, or they to visit us so I feel we have the best of both worlds really. We will certainly stay here for the forseeable future. Dawn
