Welcome back to Forked Tongues: Conversations with Foreigners Living in France!
This is Episode 11!
The French summer holidays are over, and the French rentrée (back to school) is too. A new (French) year begins... the second year of existence for this podcast!
For this first episode following the summer break I spoke with Michael Strutt, an Englishman living in Vernet-les-Bains in the Pyrénées Orientales where I spent two weeks this summer.
Affable, insightful, and incredibly knowledgeable, Michael is also a real Francophile, coming to France countless times since his first visit at the age of 14. Our conversation covers many topics: his early experience of France and French people (in the UK), the British connection to Vernet-les-Bains, the Anglican church there with the only set of bells in France that can be rung in the English style, local history, speaking and reading French, understanding French etiquette, to name just a few.
This was a fascinating discussion with a very interesting and generous man. I'm sure you'll enjoy it as much as I did.
Thanks for listening!
Derek Rawson