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  1. Have to agree, these are hard times and folks are looking for alternatives and compromising on lots of aspects of their life.  I for one am quite prepared to try something new and open to suggestions.  We've got our place (house with 2 gites) advertised for sale or swap on numerous sites and with agencies.  We're ideally looking to downsize back to UK but will consider anything smaller or even similar from the Vendée Northwards.  We've had quite a few enquiries for swapping but haven't yet found a suitable property. Although our place is priced sensibly for sale it's in a price bracket (500,000 €) with few buyers but competing with lots of 'similar priced gite property'.  Everyday I check several sites for property both for sale and wanted 'just in case'! Fortunately we're not desperate to sell and so prepared for the 'long-haul'! Another aspect of this is that I think immos/estate agents should wise-up, be more flexible and look-into this as offering a more 'complete service'.  We had an email enquiry from one of our immos recently and it started off  "Please don't think I'm crazy but...." she'd had one of their UK clients enquire about swapping their property with ours? Actually the property sounded very interesting to us but unfortunately we've heard nothing more... Typical!  I didn't think it was crazy at all and told her so - it's just another aspect of the way the whole 'property market' is evolving.  Perhaps it's a 'step-to-far' to expect them to adapt and evolve with the market conditions!
  2. Not sure about the Playstation capabilities but not long treated myself to an Xbox360 and although it has Sky and LoveFilm you can't access them here in France, just get the message "Not available in Your Area".  I googled if it was possible to hide your IP address on the XBox but all answers were in the negative. You could I guess download via your pc (using a Ex-Pat Shield or another IP address hider) and then watch via the pc with an HDMI cable but think you'd probably have to download rather than Stream unless you have a mega connection speed.
  3. Might be because the scart cable has come loose... worth a try!
  4. Who knows... I chased mine up yesterday via the English speaking Health helpline and although they confirmed my application has been received I was told it will take another 2 weeks before I get an official reply!
  5. Might be worth contacting Franklins removals  They are coming to collect a single piece of furniture from us tomorrow and take it back to UK.  Apparantly he's in the Confolens area today and coming to us near Perigueux tomorrow some time.
  6. Hello peeps, Hubby's having a problem with our ride on mower at the moment and just wondered if anyone out there had the same mower that might be able to help and shed some light on the problem. Unfortunately we do not have the manual for it. Came to start her up the other day only to find it wouldn't start. He's spent hours trying to sort it, seems to be an electrical problem. It's turning over ok so the battery's fine but just not firing up. Tried putting a new spark plug in, checked for a spark but doesn't appear to be one. Can anyone help?
  7. Hi angel, Have you considered buying something a little more independant to your parents.  I don't want to sound pessimistic but speaking from experience you can live too close to family.  We moved here 3 years ago with my parents and although we all got on famously in the UK it went pear shaped when we all tried to live together in the same property whilst renovating a large barn on our land.  We're all friends again now but it caused a lot of heartache for everyone for about 18 months after they left. The only other thing I'd add is definately to go for it - albeit in your own place - Bonne chance!
  8. Wow, looks very smart, bet she's well happy with it!
  9. Hi BOb, Jeff would love to take the cover off your hands.  His old one is full of holes after our new puppy tried to eat it.  Let me know if you've still got it and I'll give you a ring to arrange to pick it up.  Cheers!
  10. Just to add... Dafy Moto in Perigueux has moved premises, the new showroom is just behind the old one and the old one is now a Suzuki dealer.  Will be going into both shops next week to have a browse....  Dafy Moto had some lovely summer gear last year, particularly the 'Segura' range.  Always find it annoying though that the shops do not seem to stock the trousers to match the jackets.  I guess it's because French bikers don't bother with specialist biker trousers and just go out in their everyday jeans.  That's not for me until I become a more experienced biker.
  11. Is anyone else suffering a lack of enquiries, particularly for July Bookings? We use Chez Nous and I have recently put the gites on other 'freebie' sites including: HolidayHomeAds, Rent Property Direct, A Week or 2 in France and Lost In France. I've been looking at other similar properites on Chez Nous this morning and many appear to have most of the month of July available Has anyone used the Chez Nous 'special offers' with any success?
  12. Hi Bob, Funny you should post here as I was trawling the net the other day for ex-pat bikers in the Dordogne and came accross your website. Small world isn't it! Anyway, with regard to your bike registration problem we have a very similar tale to tell.  We've also been trying to for past 2 years to get our bikes registered here with no success.  Most of the problems down to our own ignorance of not realising about the horse power limit here, if only we'd known then what we know now.  We're probably gonna get shot down in flames for this by other 'holier than tho' members but we've finally come to the solution that the only way to keep our bikes on the road here is to get them re-registed back in the UK and take out UK Insurance.  We've got the insurance sorted with a company that offers 365 days a year european cover with breakdown assistance.  I can honestly say we tried everything to do this the 'legal French' way but there was just no way I could get mine registered.  Long story and I wont bore you with it all now.  At least were back riding them again now after 2 years of hassle. Hope we can all get together some time soon to share our experiences etc. Take care for now.
  13. [quote user="Cassis"] Sorry - for bank transfers or for having an account? [/quote] For having an account!  You can get an account with lower charges but you only get a cheque guarantee card and not a proper Visa cash card... too useful, especially for 24 hour petrol etc. They were also charging 0,50 cts every time you accessed your account on their website although, since January this year they went to great pains to advertise it's now 'free'.  I never used to be a pessimist but since living here...anyway when I checked with the guy at BNP to clarify this he confirmed it's free unless you actually do any on-line transactions.  That's very generous of them then???    
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