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What Brits miss from home

Offroad um with the right to wander and and the scenery of the Peak District that's the one thing that's the one thing we do miss what would you say you missed most about Englan...

Course: Britain and other culturesSection: British life in FranceSubtitles: en

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walk

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Offroad um with the right to wander and

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and the scenery of the Peak District

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that's the one thing that's the one

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thing we do miss what would you say you

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missed most about England not being

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there for 25 years

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if you wanted a magazine in English you

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have to have it delivered right you

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can't get in a shop and flick through

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them but really there isn't anything is

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there any difference or what differences

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are there between the Brits and the

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French of the French people that you

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know here well I think generally people

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are much more

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polite living in France now reminds me

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of actually growing up in the 50s and

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60s in the UK I mean everywhere you go

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everyone will say Bon whatever context

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will say Bon and they're very very

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polite children yeah we found when we

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were when we first came and we were

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looking around and we have a picnic

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somewhere and children walk by they say

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BN up a te you know the children are

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much more better behaved in restaurants

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for example they don't tear around

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screaming they because they're used to

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staying up late for family meals evening

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markets

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