Category: Living in France

May 23, 2008

Midi France

Midi France is a site giving information about the region where we live. Languedoc seems to have everything from Buddhist Retreats to Bare Bottoms

Google Video Player

I am beginning to use videos more in my blogs and on websites I use - I have been telling myself for years that this is important and that I should be giving a video blog regularly - it is …

Moving to France with Children

Filed under: French life, Living in France, Personal - 23 May 2008

Hi there Tony,

My Husband and I have been talking about moving to France for many years and haven’t had the courage to do it! We have been holidaying in France for 12 years and Pezenas for the last 5-6 …

May 22, 2008

Top Gear Double Declutch

Filed under: French life, Living in France, Personal - 22 May 2008

A lot of my mail is about solving problems due to differences with the way France deals with - well- just about everything.

Dovetailing another culture’s system into the French bureaucracy can be like driving an old car which does not …

A Little Village House

Tony,

OMG, as they say today, some 20 years ago I camethisclose to buying a house in the village of Puilacher, Languedoc. A friend in New York (I’m a Brit who went to NYC in 1970 and worked for The New …

Teaching English in France

Filed under: French life, Living in France, Personal - 22 May 2008

Tony,

My wife and I, have, like so many others, have fallen in love with the South of France. We are visiting the Minervois area this year. I know it is impossible to find work there but was wondering …

April 23, 2008

Beziers to Stanstead with Ryanair

It seems Ryanair are pleased with the work the people in Beziers have done to make their new Bristol-Beziers route a success, so they are operating a trial service from Stanstead in the summer.

The nice people from BlaBlaBlah sent …

April 22, 2008

Fractal Resonance Alternative Neutron Collision Exciter

I was transported back in time and space when walking the dogs through the lanes around our village this afternoon. I found myself in 1958 walking along a lane in Cornwall England wearing Boy Scouts uniform.

This was very strange as …

Come Up and See Me Sometime

I think the biggest pleasure in writing any blog like this , perhaps in writing anything, is getting feedback and comments from readers . A lot of my stuff is about our life and experiences in living in the South …

April 14, 2008

Life in France

Filed under: Discover France, French life, Living in France, Personal - 14 Apr 2008

I couldn’t say it better myself, so to see France as I know and understand it read this column by Finn Skovgaard in the Telegraph .

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