Recent Posts
Foreign Perspectives
Return To Blog Listing
News and editorial on life from the south of France, a regular series on how to move here and some random musings too.
Recent Posts Tagged With 'business'
Another full weekend thanks to the Spanish resort accommodation
As we move through August the number of people in the place has been steadily increasing and, of course, we’ve had the usual spikes in occupancy at the weekends. Unfortunately those weekend spikes have become even more pronounced this year. Tha...
The expenses of being a “noshow”
In these days when virtually everyone books their accommodation online it’s particularly important to read the small-print regarding cancelling your trip or simply not turning up at all at your accommodation. If you simply don’t turn up a...
Thinking of buying a gite in France?
When people think of moving to France their first thought as to how to generate an income is to buy a gite complex and rent it out to people from back home. It sounds like an idyllic lifestyle, doesn’t it? You work one day a week and the rest o...
Is your blog a Rolls or a Trabant?
Much as we might laugh at the Trabants that East Germany used to turn out as being unreliable and prone to break down, sadly that’s what many blogs seem to look like these days. Oh, they don’t break down, but the quality of the workmanshi...
How DO you measure the effectiveness in attracting traffic of a change in your website?
The number of hits that myself and Wendy have been picking up on our main blogs has gone up quite dramatically over the last month or two and, ideally, we’d like to know why that is but, of course, the problem is that we’ve not just done ...
