Duras or Blaye - that was the Question!

So after our weekend trip, when we saw a total of nine properties, we had ended up with two possible candidates one just outside Blaye, the other just north of Duras.  Work needed doing to both properties, although, on the face of it, not much to the one near Duras; we liked both properties, which each had their own charms.

The choice, then was between Blaye, which we felt was relatively quiet on the English tourist front, or the east end of the Gironde department, which has many English residents - we went out to dinner in Duras, where only one table was occupied by French people, all the others were brits!  This then was a dilema.  We needed to be able to rent out the house when we weren't using it to help with the costs, but we were not that keen on an area swarming with English people.  We ended up going for the Duras option, as letting the house was important.

In the end, although you come across English people around, for instance in the various markets around the area, there are not many Brits in the immediate locale.