From Sue, France

01 January 2020

Sue, France 

1) We arrived in Southern France in Feb 2005. We came here from Costa Rica, where we had lived for 2 years (2000-2003) and used as a base to travel in Central and South America for 6 months. 2) We came to France because I preferred living in Europe to living in the Americas - but did not want to return to the UK/ London where we lived for decades, leaving in July 2000. 3) Life here - we live in an enormous vineyard (the Languedoc) interrupted by a few towns and many villages, including our own, where we have lived for 15 years. Grapes grapes and more grapes and some olives to produce wine and olive oil. That's LIFE here.

Sue

This postcard is one of several collated as part of collaboration between Dr Michaela Benson and the Migration Museum. A selection of these appears in the Postcards from the British in Europe installation in Departures, the museum's current exhibition exploring four centuries of emigration from Britain, bringing Britain’s emigration story and its emigrants into the national conversation about migration