Now this is what I call exciting. Having been promised that TNT television would arrive at our rural outpost sometime in about 2011, it has unexpectedly arrived early. TNT is a system by which additional television channels arrive through the television aerial (not a satellite dish) and get decoded by a clever little box.
A word [...]
We quite often get asked about French schools and how schools in France compare with those elsewhere. Although I’ve written a general guide elsewhere on the site (see French schools) a few recent conversations with teachers have given us new food for thought. This has included teachers with experience of schools in both the UK [...]
Note: you might also like to see Learn to Speak French on the main site, which is more detailed than the chatter below!
During the winter my French speaking skills seem to go into a bit of a decline, then pick up again during the spring and summer as I get out and about with French [...]
I just added this blog to a ‘blog statistic monitoring service’, so that I can see how visitors to the blog find us, and its been a fascinating experience. I’ve spent the last couple of hours engrossed as I can see ‘live and online’ what people have searched for in google etc to get to [...]
Here’s an idea you might like - francethisway can put cash in your pocket!
Loads of you will be visiting France during the coming months. Our goal is to have complete coverage of all the places of interest in France, and to become the leading resource for people visiting the country. A challenge that is just [...]
A question we are often asked, is how does the quality of life in France compare with that in the UK? A tough question because it depends so much on the individual (yes, you!) and their circumstances.
If you are retired and living in luxury in Berkshire the answer will be different than if you are [...]
The heading ‘a new life in France’ hardly applies to us because we are positively veterans of the process compared to the many more recent immigrants. But as the gite season is upon us we need to prepare ourselves for the questions that we get asked each year by a large number of the people [...]
It’s been a good few days, with Mrs B’s brother and his family staying, and the sun was shining as well. I haven’t done as much hard labour as I should but hey it was Easter.
You might have noticed that yesterdays blog entry was a sponsored post - perhaps I should explain what that means [...]
The following is a sponsored post.
If you are visiting France and plan to stay in a hotel, the BIG CHALLENGE is simply to stagger through the choice available - hundreds of travel sites offering thousands of hotels, mostly in places you’ve never heard of.
The site being reviewed here, Eurobookings, is a good place to [...]
Ooops that’s about two weeks since I posted here. Been rushed off my feet with all sorts of things - people coming to visit for Easter for example, and the glorious sunshine keeping me out on the tractor and my bike.
A week or so ago I had fish and chips for the first time in [...]
