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Expat Blog from France
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Trials of an expat living in France struggling to come to terms with the language and the natives.
Recent Posts
Michelin starred birthday
It was my birthday yesterday, woo-hoo, and I even got some great presents – including a CD by Antony and the Johnsons (who he?); a couple of carbon-fibre bottle holders for my bike (these are much too expensive to justify buying for myself but ...
Pleasures of dealing with URSSAF
Here is the translated transcript of a phonecall I just had from URSSAF, the body responsible for collecting social contributions in France. URSSAF: Hello Boris, can you tell me why you have sent us a cheque for 2540 euros? Me: Because you sent me a ...
Five great reasons to be an expat
Looking at recent posts on this blog I can see I have been grumbling a bit too much, and not talking about the great reasons for being an expat in France. So to stop readers thinking I’m a miserable old fool or that France must be a terrible pl...
Hot bath for the spiders
Episode 1 Last year when we closed the (rental) house up for winter I carefully emptied the hot water tank, turned off the electricity, closed the valves on the gas tanks etc so that we were confident that the house could be ignored for a few months....
Picking grapes in Burgundy
I’m a long way from home travelling around Burgundy at the moment, which presents me with a challenge – whenever I go away, Mrs B and the girls complain that I don’t think of them at all. This is based on the fact I that I never bu...
The school rentrée in France
The rentrée – return to school after the holidays – takes on a significance in France that it doesn’t have in the UK, or perhaps elsewhere, so I thought I’d give a quick run-down of what it’s all about. It’s alwa...
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