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james · 27 March 2018 14:24

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Bob's Beer - a Basque Microbrewery Employed & Self Employed

[image] In May 2005, Bob Worboys left London, with his French born wife, Carolyn and twin sons, to start a new life in the Pays Basque region of France. During the previous decade, they had spent numerous holidays and weekends property hunting in France and had looked at various regions before settling on the Pyrenees-Atlantiques department. Whilst they had decided on an area, they certainly had not got as far as choosing a property. However a change in circumstances, meant Bob decided the time was now right to make the move ‘back’ to France. As a family they were probably better equipped than most to make the move. Bob explains “ I had always spoken French with Carolyn. We met on a language course and the boys were at a lycee in the UK, so the language issue was never a problem for us. Even so, we did leave behind our support network of friends and family and it was surprising just how much of a shock it was to move to somewhere so much smaller and quieter than London. We …