Comments for Travels with my mum at http://www.roujan.com , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.roujan.com Sun, 19 May 2013 21:53:08 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.roujan.com/index.php/224-travels-with-my-mum.html#comment-80 Toby, you may have had a point 80 years ago, but these days, here in wine-producing land, many of the old and beautifully shabby houses are carefully preserved by foreign in-comers. Wine-makers still owning older domaines have very little profit and barely any cash transactions to hide. - Liz Betts-Gosling Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:35:31 +0100 http://www.roujan.com/index.php/224-travels-with-my-mum.html#comment-78 As an ex-pat now returned to the UK my experience of the French (and the Italians even more so) is that the rundown exteriors of the houses have nothing to with good taste. It's much more to do with them being terrified of the tax man working out how much undeclared income they have. - Toby Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:10:41 +0100