How often does Pat visit her friends in France in the past few years?

Extract one:
    Hi, I’m Pat. Every year fur the last few years we’ve visited our Mends in a tiny little village in the middle of France. They bought a cowshed and it was literally a cowshed, not fit to live in and they have gradually made it better and renovated it and it’s in a beautiful position—it’s on the top of a hill and for miles around you can see this beautiful countryside, and I think only one other house so you do need a car and you taken the car into the tiny little village where there are about four or five shops and a very nice restaurant where you can go and have a five course meal for very little money and also near is a very big lake—became this place is in the Dordogne and there are lots of lakes there. Most afternoons you can windsurf and sail.
    Also there is a very nice market French market there once a week where you get lovely pates, lovely fresh fish, really good fresh fish and lovely bowls and baskets which the local people have made. I like this part of France very much but I think it’s a shame that there are too many English people there.
Extract two:
    Hello, my name is David. I would like to talk about Tokyo. What kind of city is it? It’s a very modern city. I expected it would be quite old but there are very few parts of it which am old in fact at all because it was firebombed during the second World War by the Americans, there are one or two temples but basically it’s a city that’s been built since 1945. Urn, a lot of it is low rise; one-, two-, and three-storey houses because of the earthquakes danger, because they get lots of earthquakes.
    Once you’ve mastered a little bit of Japanese, it’s relatively easy to get around Tokyo because they’ve got an excellent subway system and it’s quick and easy to get around. The problem is of course that Tokyo is a city of thirteen, fourteen, fifteen million people and they all want to get around at exactly the same time, so especially if you’ve traveling in the rush hours, eight o’clock in the morning, five o’clock at night it is a question in many of the big stations of being pushed on to the train—they pay students a hit of extra pocket money to do this. Right in the center of Tokyo is the Imperial Palace, and that’s set in the delightful gardens but it’s completely closed to the public so nobody ever sees it. In the rest of Tokyo there are ten, or twelve public gardens but they tend to get very filled up with people, especially daring national holidays. Other than that it’s just street after street and block after block of very similar houses, as I say because Tokyo extends over—I don’t know—hundreds of square miles—a massive city.
Extract three:
    Hello, I’m Cindy. I come from the northern United States, Rochester, Minnesota—it’s a town of about 50,000 people and it’s a very very clean town, it’s an ordinary town, fairly wealthy, but it’s a bit strange because there are a lot of transients—a lot of people who don’t live there, It’s the home of the Mayo clinic, and so there axe thousands and thousands of people who come every year. The other thing is there’re also a lot of foreign residents—a lot of doctors and nurses are from other countries and so it makes what could be a really dull mid- west town something special. The library’s very good—cultural events are much more interesting than the rest of Minnesota and actually it’s not a bad place to grow up. On the other hand I was dying to leave there and all I could think of was getting away from the mid-west and the cold winters—you have about six months when it’s almost too cold to go outside. A lot of the buildings are designed so that you can walk from one to the other underground, there’s a big pedestrian subway system so you can avoid all this snow.