Pepper the robot welcomes visitors at CMultiserve

The founder and CEO of CMultiserve in Le Soler has invested €28,000 in a robot called Pepper who is there to amuse customers when the receptionist is busy on the phone.

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With Jan West Need to get your body moving? Zumba too zany?  Yoga too yawn-y? Pilates? Perfect! If you’re in the Vinca/Prades area there are 8 classes a week taught by the flexible and friendly…

There’s only a small piece of the Paris – Barcelona TGV line that isn’t super speedy now – and unfortunately that’s the line between Montpellier and Perpignan! Due to financial problems, the plans to complete the…

Depending on your perspective (whether you are based in France living off a UK based salary/pension, buying a property or selling up to return to the UK) this graph will either be very depressing or great news….

Two of our castrated lambs were twins, both of them completely black all over. They were pretty gorgeous and we watched them grow with some pride. They’d survived the Burdizzo Treatment involving the giant pliers and were now naughty adolescents.

The spring of 2013 had been unusually wet but the happy result of this was an abundance of wild flowers in our orchard: Provence orchids, honeysuckle, thyme, aquilegia and rock rose were blooming as far as the eye could see. Since buying the house and putting out wild bird food there had also been a huge increase in the number of birds around the house. As well as tits, nuthatches and goldfinches during the winter, our summer visitors included the Golden Oreole and a pair of hoopoes.

Final Salary/Defined Benefit Pensions Should you consider transferring your Final Salary Pension Scheme? There have been a number of recent changes within the UK economy and UK pension world that make a review of any…