The Aude is a charming department, way down in the south of France, with one foot in the Pyrenees and one in the Mediterranean. It’s in the region of Occitanie (formerly Languedoc-Roussillon) and covers an area roughly the size of Devon.
Pyrenees-Atlantiques is a department in the southwest corner of Nouvelle-Aquitaine in France. It’s where France meets Spain on the Atlantic side, named after the mountains that tower over it and the west side on the Bay of Biscay.
Between Brittany, Normandy and Nouvelle-Aquitaine, is the region of Pays de la Loire. With an area of Maryland, or three times that of Yorkshire, there is plenty for property buyers to choose from, including the Atlantic coast, the valleys of the Loire and cities like Nantes.
