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Go France: Gemma Tiptonmeets people who loved their holidays in France’s Pyrénées-Orientales region so much that they packed up and moved there

BARRING TOTAL travel disasters, I always fall a little in love when I go away. These holiday romances aren’t with handsome Frenchmen or enticing Italians, though, but with the destinations. Like many of us, I can’t visit a place without imagining a life there, seeing picturesque apartments or villas and dreaming of them as mine. I’m also entirely unfaithful, as it only takes another trip to a different place to cure me of one obsession and awaken the next.