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Forum: France
Feb 20th 2011, 12:40 pm
Replies: 12
Views: 1,960
Posted By racaille

Re: Using a Carte Bleu in Spain

It came from my own experiences of travelling in Spain, away from the popular resorts. I have not always been able to use a card. You say it is not always a popular option. In my experience - and ...
Forum: France
Feb 18th 2011, 4:09 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 4,879
Posted By racaille

Re: UK pensioners would like help with French health rules

But if you take out a yearly foreign holiday insurance policy to cover the car, no one can check how much time you spend in the Uk or in France, can they, if you use the chunnel for instance?
...
Forum: France
Feb 18th 2011, 9:35 am
Replies: 39
Views: 4,879
Posted By racaille

Re: UK pensioners would like help with French health rules

PS - in fact, if you only plan on being here for a year, wouldn't it be simpler just to treat it like a holiday and leave everything in place in the UK, taking out holiday health cover and car...
Forum: France
Feb 18th 2011, 9:33 am
Replies: 39
Views: 4,879
Posted By racaille

Re: UK pensioners would like help with French health rules

I'm not absolutely sure but I believe that as pensioners you would qualify for the state healthcare system if you were resident as opposed to taking a long holiday. But anyway you would need to have...
Forum: France
Feb 17th 2011, 8:09 am
Replies: 19
Views: 18,143
Posted By racaille

Re: Relocating to Pau, advice needed

I too would urge you to try your children in local French schools. My son had some real difficulties at first (he was tested for dyslexia etc etc but it turned out to be nothing at all like that) and...
Forum: France
Feb 17th 2011, 7:49 am
Replies: 9
Views: 2,628
Posted By racaille

Re: Poitou-Charentes should we move?

I think it really depends on how outgoing you are. You may find you have to make the first move sometimes. But with a five-year-old you have a ready-made circle of potential friends waiting outside...
Forum: France
Feb 15th 2011, 12:59 pm
Replies: 12
Views: 1,960
Posted By racaille

Re: Using a Carte Bleu in Spain

Take care - many places in Spain still do not accept cards.
Forum: France
Feb 14th 2011, 7:40 am
Replies: 10
Views: 2,500
Posted By racaille

Re: BEST TECHNIQUES / RESOURCES TO LEARN FRENCH

I don't think there is any better way than just to get stuck in!

Can you join a club, group or activity that will put you amongst native speakers? Then you just have to summon up the courage to...
Forum: France
Feb 13th 2011, 6:37 am
Replies: 3
Views: 2,642
Posted By racaille

Re: The French postal service

I have found the postal service to be terrific! A registered parcel will be left in the local post office (I live in the boonies - it might be different in a city?) and you will receive a yellow slip...
Forum: France
Feb 13th 2011, 6:32 am
Replies: 10
Views: 1,052
Posted By racaille

Re: Schools on strike this Thursday 10th Feb.

Actually, my daughter's lycée is in the Bouches du Rhone (near Aix). It was the canteen and internat staff who were on strike - and yes, no doubt there will be more to come.

But I must defend them...
Forum: France
Feb 10th 2011, 11:59 am
Replies: 15
Views: 9,203
Posted By racaille

Re: Lady in her early 50's moving to Brittany seeking advice

I too urge you to rent first! In fact, you might well find it better to wait until next autumn and pick up a cheap winter rental in a holiday home for a few months. Then you can find out if you are...
Forum: France
Feb 10th 2011, 4:28 am
Replies: 72
Views: 12,652
Posted By racaille

Re: Hoping to move to france but haven't a clue!!

Ok, let's nail the myth about the Provencal climate!

Because it is so clear, we can get some perishingly cold weather. Minus 15 is not unknown. And factor in the glacial Mistral wind and it can...
Forum: France
Feb 10th 2011, 4:16 am
Replies: 5
Views: 1,045
Posted By racaille

Re: House prices

Well, I was hoping to release some equity but not so many people want a big house any more and the smaller properties are disproportionately expensive - and I am not talking nice old stone piles,...
Forum: France
Feb 9th 2011, 4:19 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 1,045
Posted By racaille

House prices

I wish people would stop saying how cheap property is in France. It depends where you want to live.

After a decade down here we want to stay in the area but could do with a smaller house. Good...
Forum: France
Feb 9th 2011, 9:37 am
Replies: 13
Views: 31,104
Posted By racaille

Re: Affordable English speaking schools in France

I think at 12 he could manage the language - even if he 'lost' a year while picking it up, it would be no great deal, as already stated. The advantages (in my view) outweigh the disadvantages. He...
Forum: France
Feb 9th 2011, 6:49 am
Replies: 10
Views: 1,052
Posted By racaille

Re: Schools on strike this Thursday 10th Feb.

And for those of us with weekly boarders it means fetching said teenagers home for the night and then taking them back the next day. Humph.

BUT ..... how lucky are we to have an excellent state...
Forum: France
Feb 2nd 2011, 5:15 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 1,423
Posted By racaille

Re: certificat medical d'aptitude au sport pratique

Yup, I have to have them for me (horseriding) and all the kids' sports but they are simple enough. Make sure the doctor adds competitions included or you'll need another one if you fancy even a...
Forum: France
Jan 23rd 2011, 6:21 am
Replies: 23
Views: 2,387
Posted By racaille

Re: Where to go?????

Wow, you have too many choices! If it were me, I'd take a back pack and just travel around until you fall in love.....

However, here are some thoughts: (I'm in the Luberon and this is how I see...
Forum: France
Jan 21st 2011, 10:36 am
Replies: 19
Views: 1,998
Posted By racaille

Re: Living costs (again sorry!)

Crumbs, I had no idea they weren't everywhere! But I suppose, if I think about it, a lot of the fruit and veg is grown down here.....

Clothmama, it's only the Riviera that gets really choked with...
Forum: France
Jan 21st 2011, 5:57 am
Replies: 19
Views: 1,998
Posted By racaille

Re: Living costs (again sorry!)

PACA is Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Obviously the Riviera is the most expensive place to live but where I am in the Vaucluse is still ruinous in terms of house prices. It makes me grimace when people...
Forum: France
Jan 20th 2011, 1:48 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 1,998
Posted By racaille

Unhappy Re: Living costs (again sorry!)

I live in PACA for my sins, where living costs are horrendous. However, there are many costs that will be similar, such a heating bills. The cost of electricity and heating oil has shot up, as has...
Forum: France
Jan 13th 2011, 5:54 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 3,191
Posted By racaille

Re: Reasonably Priced Homes

Ah, don't get me started on happiness. I once met a guy (in LA, actually, which might not come as a surprise) who was writing his doctoral thesis on the nature of happiness. We chatted for a while...
Forum: France
Jan 13th 2011, 7:45 am
Replies: 31
Views: 3,191
Posted By racaille

Re: Reasonably Priced Homes

It's very hard to work out what a house is 'worth' - it's worth what you will pay for it. In London, for instance, it was easy to measure one Victorian house in a street against another, for example,...
Forum: France
Jan 4th 2011, 9:44 am
Replies: 23
Views: 3,826
Posted By racaille

Re: We want to move to France, but which area? Pls help. xxx

Well, I'm sorry to rain on your parade a little but I can't help thinking your plan sounds like a pin the tail on the donkey game! :D I can't help wondering why you have decided to move to France if...
Forum: France
Dec 29th 2010, 4:59 am
Replies: 8
Views: 3,419
Posted By racaille

Re: Aix en Provence preschools

I agree with dmu that it might NOT be that easy to get a child into school for just a month. And a word of warning - and this is not sexist, just the voice of experience LOL - you might find that...
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