It’s time to get rid of all those 500 euro notes in your purses, wallets, stashed under the mattress……. as the €500 banknote will no longer be printed after January 2019. Existing five-hundreders will of course be honoured until they’re all spent up.

As usual, PO Life brings you walks, restaurant reviews, recipes, airport news, French and English language exercises, silly jokes, days out…… and a host of talented guest writers who have volunteered (or been volunteered) to be your personal guides around the region.

INSEE, the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, will begin the next sample census throughout France from Thursday, January 19th with a selection of approximately 9 million of the population.