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Foreign Perspectives
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News and editorial on life from the south of France, a regular series on how to move here and some random musings too.
- Author: Arnold
- Listed in: Destinations Travel
- Tags: america miscellaneous moving to france living in france expat life spacer
Recent Posts
Assumptions that people make which aren’t quite right for their holiday accommodation
When they’re booking a place for their holidays people often make assumptions about what that place will be like not so much from the description (which few seem to read) but rather from the place that they’re booking it through. For inst...
Egg Money goes downhill after Citibanks changes kick in
The Egg Money card used to be one of the handiest cards that I had, despite the dopey hamster adverts. You could use it as a savings account as it paid 4% (up until a few months ago) when you’d overpaid and indeed they encouraged you to do this...
Gee what a tiring trip…
By the time you read this, we should be well on the way to our place in France (scheduled posts are wonderful!) and pretty much totally exhausted. The plan is that on Saturday morning we’ll have gone from Belfast to Rosslare to catch the LD Lin...
Isn’t is it annoying the way thieves trash your place as well as stealing stuff?
Sadly, we’ve just heard the news that some ******** have broken into our house in France and trashed the place. What seems pretty much a cert is that the things that they took (seemingly less than a dozen things in total although we need to do ...
Keeping going with Kumon, even over the summer
We’ve partly started down the home schooling route by way of the Kumon system recently and are just beginning to settle into it. Basically we started looking around for options to get James’ reading & writing back on track after the m...
