Category: Personal Blog

Like many people, I tend to “see” words and phrases as pictures in my mind - this might explain my spelling errors and typos all over this blog. If I want to remember something written I think of the …

I live in the center of the largest wine producing region in the world - more wine is produced in Languedoc each year than in the whole of the United States.

Today I found this fact very useful. Every evening I …

I must admit that out of the hundreds of community sites I have been joining lately, I seem to have forgotten most within a day. But some like http://chokti.com/ are good and do offer useful features and services. I …

After all the data collected by International Living (health, quality of life, modernity, culture, security, money, etc.) has been crunched, France has come first on the list of the countries in the world offering the best quality of life. …

If you buy your home for a great view, a quite neighbourhood or for local services, nice neighbours or low taxes - guess what will happen next !

I read somewhere, “The only thing certain in life is change” (Google says it was Confucius, but he didn’t speak English - please mail me if you know who it was).

France is not a country with a “compensation culture” - the quote “All for one and one for all” comes from Dumas ( I am pretty sure about that) and the Rights Of Man are engraved in stone “literally” in many public places in France.

However, here is a mail exchange I had today ….

Sunday morning in Montblanc and again walking back from the shops with warm bread and today’s Sunday Times under my arm. I received, and returned, seven “bonjour” and one “bon appetit” in a walk of less than 300 meters there …

I spent a lot of the weekend editing mail and researching websites for information about missing children. Comments in the last Blog entry have produced some good ideas and I am passing these on to Child Rescue Alert . You can see a direct button on the right hand side of this site.

This is the first time I have passed on a chain letter - I sincerely hope it is the last but I could not refuse this request.

Photo and contact details http://nizas.com/madeleine/

A MESSAGE FROM MADELEINE McCANN’s UNCLE: As you are …

Writing blogs means I get a lot of unwanted sp*m emails, thousands a week. Fortunately I use good filters and the gmail server which catches most of this rubbish, but it aslo means I cannot openly publish an email …

We are working on a service to compare currency exchange dealers and hope to be able to offer the best deal of the moment. The start of this is already online at www.Nizas.com/currency Although these companies are all very …