A QUESTION was posted to the forum recently from one half of a gay couple who asked if they would be accepted in a France.
Simon wrote: “As a gay couple would we have any adverse reaction? We aren’t blind or unassuming that are life style isn’t the norm but what’s the French twist on things?”
I WOULD imagine many of us have moved home at some time or another and for varying reasons, writes Coral Luke.
Whether it be for work, to have more space or as an investment, you decided a move would be a pretty good idea.
But for some people a move is often undertaken in response to a negative situation rather than a positive one, and usually it never solves the problems that they believed would disappear in a new environment.
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.
WITH access to the internet French families are now able to research the fate of their ancestors who may have died by the guillotine during the French Revolution.
The site, Les Guillotinés, allows families to log on and uncover the appalling injustices carried out over a three year period; from 1792 to 1795.
MAYBE you are looking to start a business in France, or are just keen to find out a little more about your local commune, well drop in on Insee’s Statistiques Locales.
Insee is the official statistics authority and compiles facts and figures on a wide range of subjects, to a quite dizzying degree sometimes, but their stats on local communes can be quite eye opening.
WITH so many people leaving the UK to take up residence in other EU countries, including France, there are always dozens, if not hundreds, of questions to be answered.
I WROTE earlier this year about the flight of the cranes across France and how many people saw the birds migration from Spain to northern Europe, roughly in a line from the south west to the north east, as a sign of spring.
Well it looks as though les grues are heading back, marking the onset of the winter months, and Clare Worthy has captured a flock passing over her Dordogne home.
SO as France wakes up with Nicolas Sarkozy set to take the presidential suite in the Élysée Palace, what next for the country?
Supporters of the right will be nursing a sore head after a night of celebration, whilst those on the left may have spent the evening drowning their sorrows.
But in Sarkozy’s words with France ready “to turn a new page” in its history and Ségolène Royal believing that “something has risen up that will not stop” there is hope that new thoughts and ideas will bring change.
I KNEW I would be able to rely on readers of the site when I asked for the experience of people who receive diabetic treatment in France.
A question had been left on the forum from a couple who were looking to move to the Dordogne, it was the husband who had type 2 diabetes and the question asked if he would receive regular check ups and be covered by the health system.
The European Union celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and throughout the EU people are celebrating from capitol cities to small villages all with the logo of ‘Together since 1957’.
One canton in the Cote d’Or department of Burgundy celebrated with stalls, photoshoots and friendship.
