Oh la la! Vive la France and all that ... every Francophile in Britain will identify with the rapturous outpourings of Ellie Nielsen for whom words like 'camembert', 'alors' or 'tant pis' send her serotonin levels soaring to excess.
As for the word 'Paris', well, hey, when it comes her way it makes 1,000 accordions start to play.
In fact, so besotted is Nielsen by the French capital that she just has to buy her own small patch of it. With a sizeable bequest from her mother-in-law, a compliant husband, and on vacation from Australia, she has only two weeks to pound the cobbles and tramp the teeming boulevards in search of her dream Parisian pad.
Alors! So what does she want? Tall French windows, geranium smothered balconies, parquet floors, marble fireplaces, blue shutters and leafy vistas with glimpses of the sparkling Seine.
