THANKS to the site’s forum, and in particular a comment from LaBourse, I was made aware of a telephone line rental contract from France Telecom for a second home.
The company’s Ligne Résidence Secondaire enables you to suspend your line rental payment a maximum of six times a year, for a minimum period of at least one month (and at maximum one year) at a cost of €4.69.
THERE are a number of downloadable .pdf documents on This French Life that may prove useful as they cover issues such as local taxes, property purchases, education and even flying safely.
So I’ve brought them together onto the one page so that you can access them whenever you want by saving them to your computer.
The files are in .pdf format and will open on all PC and Mac computers, if the file does not open you will need to download the Adobe reader software.
I AM a big fan of watching and listening to the news to help improve your understanding of French.
THE French city of Lyon makes its mark today as a vibrant metropolis, brimming with great food, vivacious commerce and wealthy Bourgeois, writes Zach Spittler.
IF for whatever reason you are keen to let your property long term, maybe you want a break from the stresses and strains of changeovers, there has been a number of messages left by people looking to rent a property in many regions of France.
Check out the comments on the article, Finding a long-term rental and click on people’s names to email them directly if you can help.
NOW here is a mysterious story from the heart of the Languedoc region, which has a touch of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code with a sprinkling of Kate Mosse’s Sepulchre.
AUSTRALIAN author Bryce Corbett, originally from Sydney, landed in Paris with a broken heart but discovered a side of the city he never knew existed from the back of a moped, and then fell in love with a showgirl from the Lido.
Susie of IVY Paris highlights a talk being given by Bryce Corbett on Monday (April 21) to mark the launch of his book A Town Like Paris.
TAKE five minutes and see if you can answer the quiz questions on all things France posed by author Andrew Whittaker.
Some of the questions you will find in Andrew’s book Speak the Culture: France, but he also likes to keep readers on their toes with brain teasers drawn from recent events.
A MOVE to France usually means a chance to take your foot off the gas and live a less stressful life, casting off those motorway nightmares and rushed visits to the shops.
A whole movement has grown out of this downshifting mentality, much of it led by my pal Tracey Smith who launched the first Downshifting Week from her home in France.
WEST of Niort, the capital town of Deux-Sevres, is Bessines, at the gateway to the Marais Poitevin, or Venise Verte as it is famously known, writes Beryl Brennan.
The village straddles the D9 to Coulon and is the gateway to angelica country, but also each May Bessines plays host to the Angelica Festival.
Angelica archangelica is a perennial plant growing to five or six feet high with large leaves and flat heads of greenish-white flowers on a rigid stem.
Roots, stems and flowers are produced in the first year and in the second year the angelica blossoms produce seed.