Mr. Natural

Super- thanks. Will check it out.

My wife and I have just finished building a home about 40 km. north of St. Petersburg, Russia. We used to have a place in Centre and are here visiting for several weeks. We have visited several of our old brocante haunts and are realizing that we could furninh out whole place, even with freight and customs duties, with wonderful stuff at a fraction of what it would cost us in Russia even if one could find stuff like it, which you can't. I've had experience shipping stuff from the US, but the company I used there can't handle shipments originating in France. I could really use some advice on finding an interntational freight/logistics company that would have a depot in central France where we could originate a shipment to Eastern Europe. Thanks in advance...!

Thanks all - got this sorted over the weekend. Really beats my own 2 feet!

Can anybody help out a poor Yank forced into exile in France by the evil Russians?? :-) Seriously folks, I live in St. Petersburg, have since 1996, but in Sept. I fell afoul of new and chaotic visa laws and was forced to leave the country for 90 days on very short notice. Going to the US was out unless I want to be liable to my Uncle Sam for taxes for the whole year. We used to own a house near the Cher/Creuse border and the folks who bought it from us for a holiday home kindly offered me the use of the place thru the end of the year. I had no time to get budget together for a car rental so I'm out here in the boonies with the chickens and sheep and my 2 feet. I'd really like to get somehwhere and buy a bike which I would leave here for my friends to enhance their summer rental offering. But the caretaker who has been taking me to the supermarket on weekends has only a tiny ancient car that can't transport a bike and I've had no luck finding some other local trasnport. If anybody in the area could help me out I'd gladly spring for some petrol and something to refuel you as well if you know of a nice place. I'm located in Cher (18) about 2 km from Préveranges. My best bet for a bike would probably be Carrefour in Montluçon - open to other suggestions. Don't need something expensive. Please email me if you can help. Merci.

If an American says a person is "cranky" it means they're out of sorts and/or hard to deal with in general. Is it the same meaning in English? Is there another typically English expression for such a person? Thankin' y'all in advayunce... SORRY THIS GOT POSTED TWICE! I WOULD DELETE THIS ONE BUT I DON'T SEE ANY WAY TO!

Often I will browse forums without logging in. I only log in if I want to post. On most other sites where I'm a member, I am returned to the forum and topic where I was when I logged in. Here it seems I get taken back to the main forums page. Maybe there's a reason for this, but I think it's an important usability issue. Thanks for listening.