It can come as quite a surprise just how much water is lost from a swimming pool via evaporation, due to heat, humidity and wind.
Summer is a great time to be in the P-O but it does also seem to bring out ill-intentioned people trying to ‘arnaquer’ (take advantage of) others.
Who to call if you have a medical emergency in France…
French inheritance laws and taxes are radically different from those in the UK, US and other English-speaking countries…..
Learn this useful vocab to tell the scammers to get lost – with varied degrees of politeness!
Who to contact in case of emergency
If you are resident in France, the chances are you are part of the excellent French health care system, accessed via the trusty carte vitale. But what if you’re travelling abroad this summer? Or any other time, for that matter!
We are very lucky here in the P-O to be able to pop over into Spain at the drop of a hat. However, it’s never a bad idea to re-read some of the letters and comments sent in from our readers and take a few precautions before heading south..
Did you know that if you don’t sign an ‘opt out’ register, your organs can automatically be used for transplant after death?
Did you know that there’s a regular night train from Perpignan to Paris? Beate Kubitz reports.