Eddie Bowen

I love Ireland.

My passion is Ireland.

Irish history is my passion.

But at the end of the day, I have to look after number one, and number one is me.

My kids are all grown and flown.

I did do everything possible to try and find a house or a place to live.

There's no point renting because that's just money down the Swanee River, especially when you're ending your working life and all you've left is a state pension.

You have to budget a little bit tighter.

And so when I looked around, I looked at Spain and Portugal.

And I came over to France.

I did have a little bit of a soft spot for France in the first place.

Myself and my late wife and our children, we used to come over here fairly regularly on holidays.

And I like the country and I like the people.

So I came over and I had a look.

I spent three weeks over here about two, three months ago.

Again, traveled as much as I did in Ireland.

I traveled to see a lot of places.

And I eventually settled on this house in a place called Charoum.

No, no, no.

I was sitting at the...