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Since Brexit, 100,000 residence permits have been issued to Britons in 2021. Some have been there for much longer. Portrait of a Londoner, who became a restaurant owner in Paris, and a couple from Kent, who arrived in Normandy.
They offered themselves their postcard, a little corner of paradise. “Our quality of life is so much better here“, says a Briton. “There were froggys in London, and now there are roast beef, the English, in Paris“, says Oliver Woodhead, manager of the restaurant “L’Entente”. Attached to the heart and to the walls, England, and France. “Franco-British ties run deep, it’s love and hate, it’s a national sport to tease the French and vice versa I think“, adds the restaurateur.
They buy an abandoned hamlet in Normandy
Oliver Woodhead, a Londoner who arrived in Paris at the age of 19 for six months, in love with the French for 25 years, is at the head of a restaurant that offers British dishes, with products from here. A couple of landscapers have put down their suitcases in the middle of the Normandy countryside. They dreamed of a house in England, which was too expensive. Yip Ward and Paul Mappey buy this abandoned hamlet for 26,000 euros, without the works. “We settled here to have our privacy, to be quiet (…) We hope to live and die here“, they declare.
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