Archive for: October 2007

October 28, 2007

This video made me think

Filed under: Personal - 28 Oct 2007

I got this from a person I respect on my facebook pages - like Kev, it is the only video (so far) I have looked at on facebook and like Kev, I think it is worth watching. It has …

October 27, 2007

An Apple a day

Filed under: Personal, Techie Stuff - 27 Oct 2007

My next computer will be an Apple - although I have had a fair innings with XP, I am not going to try Vista. A lot of my reasoning is that people I respect in the IT industry have …

October 24, 2007

Fractional Ownership in France Problems

I have been researching and writing about Fractional Ownership in France for the last eighteen months - there are not many examples of properties sold in France in this way and I thought we would set up a new website …

Villages in France

If you are looking for a place to stay in France then you may want to know what sort of town or village it is, how big, what shops and services, what sort of population and type of people, jobs, …

October 23, 2007

Facebook pinging and friends

Filed under: Business in France, New Ideas, Personal, Techie Stuff - 23 Oct 2007

I get a lot of mail asking for introductions to other people with similar interests - it occured to  me that if anyone interested in asking about anything to do with France, property or rentals were to join me in …

Nizas French France

Filed under: Discover France, Languedoc, Personal, Rentals, Techie Stuff - 23 Oct 2007

It is a silly title, but says it all. I chose Nizas as the name for a website about France as it is a perfect French village in languedoc, in the heart of the South of France.

I made the original…

October 22, 2007

Rentals France - back to the future

Ten years ago I started a vacation rentals Internet site which grew and grew to the leading site for Rentals in France - two years ago I teamed up with a bunch of incompetant fools and the site is now …

Bargain French Property in Languedoc

We (about us) have been living in the South of France, in Lyon and Languedoc, for the past seventeen years. We first moved into a rambling tenth century ruin in Nizas and then three years ago into our 19th …

Searching for Nizas

Filed under: New Ideas, Personal, Techie Stuff - 22 Oct 2007

I am working on some websites for property services in France - an important part of this is making the pages suitable for and visible in the Search engines.

A great deal of care has to be taken not to do …

Hands across the sea

Filed under: French life, Living in France, Personal, Real Estate, fruk - 22 Oct 2007

There are strong links between Canada and France, although I do remember seeing a French Canadian film in France once which had to have sub-titles so people in France could understand the French spoken in Quebec.

Here is a mail I …

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