One of the biggest problems I have had with learning to speak French is the sex!
I don’t mean anything dirty or smutty here – I mean the fact that when you’re learning to speak French you need to remember that everything is either masculine or feminine. It’s either le (male) or la (female) for “the” [...]
Perhaps a French farmhouse is your dream?
Plenty of people look at property for sale in France through rose-tinted glasses. It’s easily done – especially if you’re mixing a French property hunting trip with a vacation. A bit of warm sun, the chance to relax, a nice lunch with a glass or two of wine… [...]
After my last post about cheap French property I had a comment from an English real estate agent working in France. Always nice to get comments, I thought. Not this time!
I won’t go into detail but this person was having a real rant. Not content with attacking my knowledge of the French property market they [...]
Not so long ago people were falling over themselves to take advantage of cheap French property. Places like Paris and Cannes have always been high priced but almost everywhere else in France was packed with bargains.
Not so any more. The Brits in particular bought a lot of the cheap French properties near the channel ports, [...]
Satellite pic courtesy Meteo.fr
Depending on where you are in the world you may or may not have heard of the storm that hit the French coast on Saturday night (27th) and blew diagonally up through the country towards Belgium.
This is quite a difficult post to write. I said I would do a blog about [...]