Rhyd6 wrote:The facebook page for Pwllheli contained several references to holidaymakers and people with second homes staying away. Some posts were urging caution as so many locals rely on holiday makers for their livlihood but others were adamant that they should be told to stay away.
Indeed so: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-51937753
Londoners still have a fair way to go before they'll be as loathed as the Parisians are in la France profonde. Their manners, their cultural detachment from the countryside in general, and their general sense of entitlement are as nothing compared with the way the Parigos behave in the French provinces.
I once spent half an hour chatting to a French farmer in his field about politics, the wartime nazi occupation of his village, and all sorts of stuff, before he turned to me, slightly mystified by my accent, and asked: "Vous etes Parisien?" I was quite chuffed by his confusion really. It was only somewhat later that I realised that he might not have meant it in an entirely complimentary sense?
I'd say there's a real possibility that this virus may reactivate some very old town-versus-country scores in rural France. Mind you, if it takes the paysans' minds off the British and the memory of the Hundred Years' War, it might not be such a bad thing.
BJ
And we were in our forties when we arrived! (I'll bet we're fitter than most of our neighbours, though - how many of them go to the gym, or manage forty trees, or build dry stone walls?) But heck, I'm still under medical supervision after a brief (and so far successful) encounter with Big C, so I suppose I'd have to count myself as immunocompromised. Fair enough, bring on the food delivery service.