Despite an irate gendarme telling you the opposite, (and let’s face it, they have guns so best to agree!) the driving licence of a EU-member state driver resident in France does NOT have to be…
If you lose or find a dog or cat….. …….phone the Indépendant: 04 68 64 88 88 after 5 p.m. and ask for Solange, who runs the Animals Lost & Found column. She’ll put…
with Fiona Warren Sterling at near 2-year low against euro A new week has begun however the pound has picked up where it left off at the end of last week by continuing its rapid…
Along with connecting utilities, installing a telephone line will be high on your ‘must do’ list when you first move into your home in France.
Over the last month I became a victim of a clever scam while out shopping.
Simply going out to Intermarché has turned out to be quite traumatic. Don’t be naive enough to think it couldn’t happen to you or your friends.
It seems that the French want their own ***EXIT. In fact, over 53 per cent of the French voted in favour of a referendum on the country’s membership of the EU. As June looms, and…
France continues to bring in new initiatives in an attempt to cut down the mountains of paperwork involved in pretty much anything official. Whilst it has been possible to pay parking and speeding fines online…
French Tax return dates 2016 This year’s deadline for the “paper” version of your tax return is Monday, May 18, 2016 (midnight). From Tuesday, April 13th, 2016, taxpayers can declare their income on www.impots.gouv.fr, in which…
with Fiona Warren I frequently mention the benefits of getting in early to organise and plan money transfers as efficiently as possible. The graph below shows the GBP/EUR pairing for the last 30 days…..as you…
Chamber of Commerce & Chambre des Métiers The Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie ( CCI), and the Chambre des Métiers both help out in the creation or development of any business activity and…