Villages in France

If you are looking for a place to stay in France then you may want to know what sort of town or village it is, how big, what shops and services, what sort of population and type of people, jobs, layabouts etc.

I get a lot of questions asking me if there are restaurants, how many English speaking people are there etc. etc. - to be honest, I don’t know the answers, but I can look very clever as I simply use this brilliant site which which has details of over thirty thousand places in France - the example on this page is Pouzols Minervois, a small hilltop village between Beziers and Carcassonne.

The information is usually to or three years old and comes from government statistics, but is does give a very good idea of the size, services, income, changes etc, especially if you use the comparison service