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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.
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Cutting yourself off from the world by promoting local languages
In the days of Franco, the various local languages in Spain were, by and large, suppressed. The overall effect of that was that they were on the way to dying out. However, since the early 1980s single language schools in the local language have sprun...
The elegance of yesteryear
Don’t you sometimes miss the elegance of Victorian times? Oh, for sure, the ladies garments were none too practical and probably best confined to history, but the gentlemen’s attire was quite practical but still managed to be truly elegan...
It’s vacation time: let’s close up!
Whilst we all love our vacation time, we all assume that places that thrive on tourist business will be open during the holidays. That’s not always the case in France where many attractions are closed today because it’s Labour Day (May 1s...
You’ve moved abroad and need a bank. Which one should you choose?
It’s obviously impossible to name a single bank which you can choose simply because no single bank operates in every country of the world. There are some general pointers as to how to go about choosing your bank though. One school of thought is...
