I think Eymet could be a little too anglicized even for them. We were told it is 60-65% British.
Thanks for the advice though which I shall pass on.
I still think Lauzun could be a good bet for them. Roberta does not drive and has impaired vision so a village house would be ideal.
Nooo. It just seems like that sometimes. Itâs probably around 25%.
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That ties in with what Iâve heard.
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Well that is good news. We can visit there now.
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They are just more noticeable because many of them are en terrasse sorting out the rosé when other people are at their jobs.
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Itâs actually less than 15%!!
âDans la commune dâEymet, sur 2 700 habitants, 400 sont Anglais â
Although doesnât take account people who have been naturalisedâŠbut given what I heard the one time I was there didnât seem many spoke French, so perhaps few have taken that step. We only stayed 10 minutes as the Brit contingent were so loud and uncouth that we had no desire to stay longer. Maybe it was a bad day.
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Almost what I said 
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We went to have a âlookâ, a bit like a visit to the zoo 
We could hear the brits before we even saw them, not for us.
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Miramont de Guyenne, Levignac de Guyenne, Duras, CastillonnĂšs, VillerĂ©alâŠthe northern part of L et G from La Gironde to Eastern Dordogne/ Lot has many Brit residents. Fortunately, they donât seem to conform to the rather unpleasant stereotypes portrayed in this thread 
Stereotypes exist because thereâs always some truth in stereotypes. Not always, but often.
Good to know Houpla. I havenât visited Eymet but the few Brits that we met in the towns you mention were all perfectly agreeable.
Iâve come across a lot worse in Brittany, the Languedoc and elsewhere.
Each to his own I guess.
Quite
Of course! Iâm sure they were delightful - but those nice ones arenât as noticeable as the gruesome minority. (Who probably arenât gruesome 100% of the time either).
Barbaste is quite nice too where I used to keep the horses.
Thanks for the advice Adrian. We havenât yet visited Barbaste other than courtesy of You Tube.
Pleasure itâs setup hails a bit to better times. Like much of the area was I guess a key town at some time. The Romans were there and the river and bridge created a natural place to stop. Geography again. Nerac 1is more substantial and comparatively bigger and more lively Iâd say. As lots of us are aware these are nice areas but not close to much else. We make 20-30 minutes from the autoroute to get there unless with horsebox when a bit slowerâŠ
Well its early days yet and anything could happen but we have made an offer on a house which has been acceptedâŠ
It is in the village of Francescas in the south of the department. In fact its pretty much the last commune before you cross over into Gers.
Exciting times.
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(Wiki) While its inhabitants number less than eight hundred, it is neither isolated, nor without commerce. It has a bakery, grocery, butcher, gas station/news agent, bank, pharmacy, post office, hairdresser, tailor, small bar/hotel, restaurant, small regional museum, and gendarmerie.
That sounds just great! Well found. Looking forward to hearing more, with photos please. 
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You should try the Peugeot 307 [SW in my case] The setup for the spare and jack is so dreadful that I am 100% with a comment on a Peugeot forum, âIn effect, you have no spare/jack âŠâ
The spare and tools are in a fibre case under the car. Not handily close to the rear end, droppping down on a cradle, but well in towards the middle. To get this lot out you have to remove whatever is in the boot to reveal a nut set in a well in the boot floor. You need a suitable tool to hand to do this. The tool that fits is in with the jack and the spare.
This nut, when turned, extends a wire strop coiled on a winch along the bottom of the car to a pulley above the spare assembly. The weight of the spare etc lowers all to the ground. You then have to get down onto the ground, more or less fully prone, to reach under the car to pull the spare assembly case out beyond the back of the car.
The cable is captive in a slot, with a hole big enough to allow the terminal on the end to pass thruâ it and allow you to pull the spare case out into the open. But - big but - if you donât keep some tension on the cable after it has been released from the spareâs case, when it goes slack it will almost certainly ride over the sides of the pulley and/or form a riding turn on the winch. Itâs what usually happens.
You then open up the case [covered in filth] and access all the bits.
Reversing this procedure, when youâve changed to the spare, will be impossible because the cable, if allowed to go slack and get fouled, will not retract correctly, to haul the case containing the flat and all the tools back up under the car. I guess most people just heave it all into the boot. I would.
If it gets stuck half way you are in big trouble. The spare will be dangling on the cable under the car. You now need remorquage âŠ
Imagine doing this on a cold, wet night out on a muddy verge? No. Didnât think so.
I donât have to drive on narrow country lanes - the deep country single-lane with passing places sort. The spare and supplied tools are not kept in the car. I have a couple of cans of squirty stuff [useless if hole is in sidewall] a pillar jack [with a wood pad top and bottom much more stable and easier to work than a scissor jack] and a 17mm socket & tommy bar.
So far, so good. Not needed.
I also have an excellent 12V pump which works well. I use it from time to time because I have v. slow leaks from crud on the inside rims of the wheels.
The Peugeot manual says you should not drive without the spare and all in place under the car. As they have designed a system best carried out in a nice dry garage and abominably difficult out on the road, they can take a running jump.
We had one. Fantastic fuel economy, but otherwise horrible as it aged. Spares were expensive and It was just a shoddy design. Owning that car stopped me buying another Peugeot.
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