In looking forward to the end of the French holidays?

I feel your pain Greatnan, we are in Cornwall and for most of the year it is glorious, but July and August are a nightmare, the price we have to pay I suppose!!

Oh, for goodness sake - couldn't anybody tell my post was tongue-in-cheek? Of course I am glad for the local tourist industry, but as my income comes from my UK pensions I don't stand to gain anything from the visitors. Except the dog dirt in the car park and on the landing.
I am not sure why I should be grateful for living in a beautiful place -nobody gave me my flat!

I agree with all Bluebell says but....
when I lived in Wimbledon I used to get really annoyed during tennis fortnight!

Whilst my head could tell me it was good for local business/economy etc my heart kept saying 'I want my town back' ..and that was just a 2 week invasion!

When my DD was a student at King's College Cambridge, she and her fellow students sometimes felt they were living in a theme park. This didn't stop them from posing for photos with foreign tourists - for a fee, of course

No one has a right to absolute peace and quiet - if you live in a lovey area that people want to visit, you should be grateful. People from lovely areas expect other people to live near busy roads, train stations, supermarkets , factories, hospitals so that all their ( people in lovely areas that is) needs can be met when necessary.

I live in a tourist town and we have park and ride and a reasonable number of parking spaces. If every tourist spent as much in Durham as I've just done in the Lakes then the economy here should be booming. We had pub lunches between walks at about £50 a time and fed ourselves each evening at about £30 a time in local shops. We were on holiday so not stinting. Accommodation for two adults and two GCs was £1500 and I haven't included petrol. We also bought walking shoes for the GCs so we helped the economy of the Lakes. We did some house visiting but we kept to NT properties as we are members and paid for local pony trekking and health club pool. The Lakes locals did well out of us and if they don't like the tourists then how blinkered they are. We talked to a dry stone Waller who was happily moving a gate as the number of cars in the Three Shires pub meant the farmer couldn't get the tractor through the existing gate. But all happy to do it. I hate the expression but they all knew which side their bread is buttered on.

No one said they didn't merlotgran but it doesn't mean everyone has to enjoy having their peace and quiet disturbed.

Tourists don't contribute to the local economy then?

Oh meanies........

Can't say I blame you in the circumstances, my sister lives near a small coastal town in West Wales and once the Summer comes she hardly goes into the village , you can't park or walk without bumping into people and the shops are all overcrowded, she loves it when Autumn comes and things return to normal and she can walk the beaches alone again.