French Life - Details

Listing ID: 323

Title: French Life

Description: An expat from the UK writes about his day-to-day life in France.

Category: Society : People : Expatriates

Owner: Marcus

listed on: April 23, 2008 05:31:46 AM

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Recent Posts:

French payslips and forms - Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:00:00 +0000

The French, as all expats quickly come to realise, like to make anything to do with paperwork more complicated than it need be, and whether it’s a Taxe d’Habitation bill, an invoice from URSSAF, or a payslip from an employer the main goal is to make sure that you haven’t got any idea how the [...]

Grand Designs, France style - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:26:41 +0000

One downside of getting English TV, apart from the difficulty of choosing what to watch from 100 channels of unwatchable rubbish,  is that I have discovered that one channel seems to show a lot of re-runs of Grand Designs.I always was a‘Grand Designs addict’ and now it seems I have nine years of missed [...]

Last Saturday in August - Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:10:09 +0000

The last Saturday in August is a strange day when you live somewhere popular with tourists. It is the day when the towns start to regain their‘normal’ personalities, the roads become quieter, and the numerous events, fairs, medieval days and street parties that carry on through the summer come to an abrupt end.This [...]