What can Britain learn from a Breton town’s bustling centre?

The experience of shopping in Dinan is very different from doing the same on one of Britain’s struggling high streets, says James Moore, and that includes those in similarly tourist-friendly places

Bath is a tourist trap, but its city centre has the same problems with vacancies as the rest of Britain

It was only after my family’s day trip to Dinan, a picturesque town in the Breton countryside, had ended that it dawned on me: I’d spent the entire day shopping. And I’d enjoyed it.

I couldn’t tell you the last time that happened.