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Same here, but I manage very well - I either walk down 700 metres to the centre of the village (which is good for me) and climb the hill back (a bit less pleasant!) and for main shopping, we have a supermarket about 800metres up the road from my house - I shop on line and they deliver the next day - brlliant!

We have a market every Friday morning and if I had a car, I would have problem with parking - so I feel free and easy.

In my earlier years in Paris, anyone with any sense goes without a car! much easier to use public transport or a taxi for a treat.

In UK, the bus service was good (I guess it has since changed), and then when I moved to Guernsey, I became a biker - a 125 Kawa which was plenty powerful enough for the island. And I can say that it was great riding along the coast when the weather was good. (And less problem for parking)

So for me, no need to drive a car!

There you go, Pigale!
An excellent informative post!
So, no more excuses!
I shall repeat what I said on the Spam thread here.
(Best leave that thread for spam comments, I think.)
You can get French AZERTY keyboards on Amazon for around £19.
Worth having a wee look?

Yes, will stick to this thread. But please have a look at my answer re keyboard on Spam thread.
Cheers for encouraging comments !

OK, Pigale!
My keyboard will do me.
I am calling it the way it is with my comments!
Nice to have you aboard!

I holidayed at Loch Torridon years ago. Very isolated, but ideal as we took our Labrador with us. I remember visiting Plockton, T.V. home of Hamish McBeth.

I (we) had a lab too Albie, an English one - the average lab in France is somewhat shorter - And when we moved back here, we obviously took him with us - on the ferry -

No problem with quarantine going into France but apart from a check with Vet to get a certficate of good health, the paperwork we had to do was about as much as applying for a passport~!

Anyway, it was well worth while.

We never ventured across the Channel, even though we live in Kent. We did do a lot of GB, our favourite place was Dorset. Our lab loved the sea. He'd go straight in after smelling the salt water. We have a rescue dog now, 18 months old, and as one of my mates told me, a cross between Banjo and a Frying Pan.

We had three rescue Labs, one after the other. They all loved the water, especially the quiet little coves on Studland, Dorset. I now just look after friends' dogs.

Just as well you have not ventured across the Channel because I believe the quarantine still exists when coming into the UK - so you would have had problems on the way back.

As for labs loving the sea, I know all about that! In Guernsey (and Alderney), we were surrounded by beaches and twice a day Scamp would swim (and dive) for hours, and dig huge holes in the sand! But I did rinse him with tap water about twice a week to avoid any irritation caused by salted sea water.

Great fun to watch him enjoy himself though!

We have always had Airedales which all the books say they a water dogs we have had 7 and none have liked water,one even used to by pass puddles,we lived very near the sea but the dogs never went near,they use them as all round gun dogs in America but ours would have been useless.The Army used them as did the Russians and thought very highly of them as guard dogs.