Moving within France
During my temporary absence this week Peter Driscoll of ET Brokers (www.etbrokers-removals.com) has kindly provided a guest entry that takes us through some of the trials and tribulations of moving house within France, and offers some handy tips: A Moving Story So you have made the move to France, have been renting for several months [...]
Don’t bank on it
We seem to get an increasing number of of odd phone calls, best described as the equivalent of spam emails, which usually start with a recorded message saying something like ‘Boris, you have missed a very important message – please press * to listen’ only to then have to listen to a recorded message starting [...]
French central heating systems
February is always the least exciting month in our year. If it’s going to be cold, or wet, or both, at some point in the year it is usually in February. As if to prove the point, this week has been too cold for cycling, which means I’ve been stomping around the house looking grumpy, while Mrs B has [...]
Opening a second-hand pharmacy
One of the most curious features of the French health system is that French doctors can’t bear for you to leave your appointment without a prescription, and ideally they like to prescribe as many pills and potions as they can fit on a piece of A4 paper. I’m not quite sure why. Perhaps it gives [...]
Where is my place in the sun?
Until a couple of years ago all the talk on expat blogs and forums was of people moving to France from the UK, and a large number of people followed the so-called ‘dream’. Many came, many left, but pretty much all the UK expats that I know of here in France now are those that [...]
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