This is just a story to let you know that Chipps moved to France in January 2022. Although he missed the Brexit deadline by a month, his wife, Beate is half German and an EU citizen, making this kind of shenanigans possible.
Chipps will continue to edit Singletrack World by remote control from France as, as he says ‘During Covid I didn’t go into the office for two years (apart from at weekends to use the workshop) and no one seemed to miss my physical presence. Hence I figured that being in France would only be as remote as living in Walsden during Covid. Only with much, much better weather.
Chipps is keen to point out that he’s moved to ‘southern France’ – to the small village of Fuilla, in the Pyrenees Orientales to be precise – as if you say you live in ‘the south of France’ everyone assumes you live in Nice or Monaco. Fuilla is in the real south of France (about 20km north of the Spanish border) 100 miles or more further south than Nice, and about as far south as you can actually get in France.
