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Loiseau

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  1. Yes, I regularly send money from my UK bank to my French account, to keep the latter topped up, at the click of a mouse. ( I think the first time, when I had to set my French self up a new payee, I got the usual automated phone call verification thingy for a new payee after which the UK bank will go ahead right away.) But, in France, setting up on line a new FRENCH payee from my Credit Lyonnais account takes FIVE working days. (SIGH) It's always way faster to post a cheque to settle a bill speedily.
  2. Thank God we only have to learn French, Betty! I could never cope with English as a foreign language...
  3. Huh! I thought I would give you all a smile - especially you, mint, cos I am sure you need one... I had got on rather well with uploading my ID to CurrencyFair tonight, so I thought I would try a transfer of some of the euros right now. Easy form to fill in with the IBANs of both my banks, and off we go...until I was told to log into my French bank to make the outward payment. I then learnt that I am at present allowed to send money from that only to accounts in France and Monaco. And moreover that my transfers are limited to 500 euros! How long is it going to take me to transfer a house-worth of money in those conditions!? The website grudgingly permitted me to add Ireland to the list of countries, and to raise the limit to 5,000 euros, but that seems to be it. Oh, and of course even those changes will not come into effect until I have received a special code - by POST. I feel a call to my conseiller coming on tomorrow... (And yes, at the wooly one's suggestion, I did take the bank a copy of the notaire's attestation while I was still in France, so they are well aware that I am about to repatriate a wodge of money.)
  4. QUOTE MR PANDA “Should I ignore it? I wouldn't mind having the car back as it was superb when I sold it and it's worth far more than the €300 they seem to require. ” END QUOTE Hello Mr Panda, I know nothing about the stuff the others are going on about, but anything that arrives out of the blue requiring money rings alarm bells... Could it possibly be some sort of scam masquerading as a communication from the police?
  5. "Of it", "of them" i.e J'en ai assez. Un train peut en cacher un autre. Il en reste encore.
  6. QUOTE Dept71 "The shuttle you have to give a return date and if something happens whilst over in France you lose that slot..." END QUOTE The Eurotunnel booking staff told me once that it was much better to book two single crossings - outward and back - rather than to book it as a return ticket. As they are effectively two single crossings, that means you are free to change either booking up to a day before you travel. But if you book a return ticket, then you can't amend the second leg once you have made the outward journey.
  7. Thank you, dear mint, for the clarification. The notaire has my French RIB, so the proceeds will be going into my French account. I was sorry to read you were “otherwise engaged” in a not so good way, and hope you will feel it all worth it afterwards. Bon courage!
  8. I know what you mean, nomoss... but I am resolved to help the kids out a bit with it, so probably won’t hang about too long.
  9. Whew, some very useful advice there, thanks a lot. And to Bradfords for the pm. These accounts you mention opening, mint, are presumably with the currency companies? Obviously I already have a French account from which I will be transferring, and a UK one to pay the money into - though I imagine my UK bank might want to see the attestation of sale from the notaire, to confirm the origin of the money?
  10. Having just sold my French holiday home, I shall need to repatriate the proceeds from my French bank to my UK one. I thought I should probably use one of those currency exchange companies rather than just do a bank-to-bank transfer. However, all the reviews I read online seem to cover transfers FROM the UK; has anyone used one of these to transfer from France?
  11. We bought a decrepit house on a whim, on the last day of our summer holiday - 47 years ago.
  12. Yes, I had read that post, and would indeed like to have filled it in online, nomoss. But I knew my printer in France was not working, so I could not have printed it once I got there, and anyway I did not know the buyer’s dob. So I couldn’t think of a solution other than to print out the blank forms while still in the uk and take them with me.
  13. Big thanks again to Sue and Dave - and to mint for asking the original question. I have just passed my car to my (French) neighbours, and knew so much more than they did about the whole procedure! Luckily I printed the set of forms out twice, cos we certainly made the odd mistake and had to start again... In fact, I think I have filled in the forms in triplicate three times now! Cancelling the insurance was a breeze by comparison.
  14. Another +1 for transferring online from your UK bank direct to your French bank. Mine charges £10 to send up to £5k, which doesn’t seem too bad. If done before 3pm, it says money will arrive next working day.
  15. Couldn't think what you were talking about there, Chancer. But then I read the other thread...
  16. Oh ALBF will like this! Apparently I should be best suited to living in the Dordogne! Yet I ticked "Driving on traffic-free roads" as one of my likes - and can remember my only visit to the Dordogne being stuck in ghastly traffic jams around any places of interest I wanted to go to! And it said would I like to drink chilled rosé, or fruity red wine, as far as I remember. Now I would prefer white, so had to make an arbitary choice. Sorry - complete rubbish.
  17. I have just come across the above book as a free download on the internet and, being currently in the throes of editing a guidebook myself, am delighted to see that explaining different customs etc was as de rigueur then as it is now. For example: "In France, more than in any other country in Europe at the pre sent time, the passport is liable to be demanded at all times and places, and should always be carried about the person. The gens- d'armes are authorized to call for it not only in frontier and fortified towns, but in remote villages : they may stop you on the highway, or waylay you as you descend from the diligence, may force them selves into the salle a manger, or enter your bed-room, to demand a sight of this precious document. It is needless to expatiate on this restraint so inconsistent with the freedom which an Englishman enjoys at home, or to show that the police are a pest to the harm less and well conducted, without being a terror to evil doers ; it is the custom of the country, and the stranger must conform, or has no business to set his foot in it."
  18. LOL, Jonz! I am in the process of selling a house, and the agent has told me I need to get the chimneys swept and fosse emptied *during the week before the sale* and not before. Seems a pity, if the fosse is functioning perfectly - as the vidangeur has always informed me whenever he has drained it. The incomers will have to nurture it back into life, whereas my - er - deposit was clearly the Right Stuff.
  19. Another vote for Concorde. It used to make my windows rattle four times a day when it flew over, but I could forgive it anything because of its elegance. And Le Creuset casseroles.
  20. Oh, I love it mint! Thank you. I shall do my best to use it too!!
  21. Yes, I completely agree, BinB! You articulated my underlying feeling exactly.
  22. To the original poster: Could you not home-school your children while on this trip?
  23. I am about to embark on getting quotes for moving some items from my Vendée house back to London, and wondered if anyone had any particular recommendations for a company they might have used...
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