I was listening to Kate Adie's Radio 4 programme this morning as I drove off for my daily off-road run. One of the foreign correspondents transmitted from the Bordeaux region. A local Mayor of a small town nearby has stirred France because he has highlighted how when some city people buy a second property they seem to spend a lot of time complaining about natural countryside noises! For example, the woman who wants a pond drained and filled in because the frogs keep croaking, the family who complain that the early morning cockerel was waking them up and those who didn't like sheep and cows making noise, especially during the night! The Mayor evidently has had thousands of support letters from all over France.
During my off road run today I met and spoke to a local farmer who I know. He was lurking under the shade of a tree, typing some emails on his phone and I told him about the programme. He's at that time of the year when he needs to buy his turkeys in for the Christmas period. It didn't surprise him one bit, he told me that second homeowners, in particular, are always complaining about such things and more!
He told me that a few days ago a lady hiker complained to him, the footpath is nearby, about bugs and flies and she was really annoyed that one of them had bitten her leg!