If you ever got to Valence sur Baise in SW France. It is importance to pronounce the second part of the name as 'bayeeze', to pronounce it as 'baze' is unforgivable, you could get lynched.
Fred, I doubt it they are virtually neighbours. Valence sur Baise is where the river scenes in the film 'Chocolat' were filmed. Some say that on sultry summer evenings the seductive rhythms of Johnny Depp's gypsy guitar can be heard faintly through the song of the cicadas on the riverbank.