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We (the guys) chatted about this last night in the café. BUT still a little hung-over to remember it all, maybe you can fill the gaps(very big) Famous American with French place names,names. Cher-singer Brittany-singer and trailer trash icon We got to about 12 but it is all a distant memory (sic)

    It's very littl to do with the car but more to do with the seats. All 3 of our cars (Toyota Yaris TS, Opel Sportster and a Subaru Imp) have sports seats with lumber support and I never suffer but when ever I drive a rental I start to suffer after about 30 minutes. I would say buy the car you want and just replace the drivers seat if it causes you pain, far better than buying a rubish car with good seats.

    And the moral of this story is ???????????????????

    These are very far and few between, have a word with your local Marie. He/she may well know of someone who needs what  you no longer do.

We got a lot of these at on stage, often at od hours. When we asked France telco, they told us it was them 'pinging' the lines looking for faults.

There is no need. It's legal even if you no longer own your old address in the U.K. Very odd I know. I keep my U.K. licence because I drive a lot of rentals in America and thaey ffreak out at my wifes french licence.

    I thought the Labyrinth was rather a let down. I never felt anything for any of the characters. Seemed a lot of pages but very little detail.

    I seen the army playing around down here. I would think that to be so good at retreating they must put in a lot of practice.

    Just read the new Stephen King "Cell' bit of a let down, rather like The Walking Man. Esp a let down after the Dark Tower series. Enjoyed the new Dean Koontz, very funny. Now reading The Long Way down by Hick Hornby which is a very funny book.feel soory for poor old post man of ours lugging 10 or so hard back books to our door every 2 months or so. About time i brought sahres in Amazon LOL. Must say I read far more now , that I'm living in rural France, could be the dire T.V. or the 1 hours drive to any decent night life. I have even tried reading Proust in French but found it just has boring has reading in in English.

    have a look at www.cashette.com You can forward e-mail there and you can also get paid for recieving junk mail if you want to.

I would say that with the bottom falling out of 'cave' wines, the new breed of local wines is great, well here in Aude at any rate. I think the futue is small producers, with a far lower yeald per hectare. France has been very slow in taking on the world marketing of wine, esp given the 'shame that is AOC'. I think they should take a leaf out of Spains wine industry and not release 'young wines' but mature them. I live in a village of 250 people and we have 4 wine producers, 2 of which make very fine wine. They sell for 30€ plus for good recent years. French wine is far from dead but a good few of the mass producers are now living on borrowed time.

    If you want to have the image for other uses try saving the page as a PDF and than edit the image out of it.

    Hi WJT ,  All you need to do is type your village/town name in and a surname from your village(not sure if this is needed) and Code Postale. One small point is that it  those not have the detail of Google Earth, well at least not for the  Corbieres. But you can also capture the url and e-mail it to friends/family.

    Thanks for thank link, we now have a full set ( London and Turks & Caiscos via Google Earth) and now Corbieres via Mappy.

Hi Owens88. I think you mean Tautavel, a very famours pre-historic site and mueseum (and website). Plus the are loads of Roman remains. Cellars and Roman road in Narbonne, Wine cellars in Portel des Corbieres, plus the big sites in Beziers, Nimes (+ Pont du Gard), Montpellier, and all along the south coast. Type archaeolgie into www.pagesjeaunes.fr and you we find the societie in Paris.Plus some universities have archaeolgy departments.

    I Do the very same thing and alos the other way around. When some religous freak rings the front door I say hold on a mo my phones ringing, than just leave them there while I carry on with what I was doing before they rang.

We just got bored on living in central London. We have also lived in a few other places (North Africa, The Middle East and the Caribbean) but settled on the South of France....because my wife said so. can there be any greater reason than that?

There seems very little interest in the World Cup down here in the South of France. People just seem to lack any interest in it. I'm far from being a football fan, but have dropped into the odd conversation in the local bars and no one seems to give a t**s about France's chances. Is it same 'Up North' i wonder?

The restaurant in the Hotel de la Cité is excellent, we've eaten in there a good few times over the years and never been let down, they also have a very good wine list. They also have a bistro which is good for lunch.

I'm a big fan of random acts of planting non local and non invasive plants. We have scatterd poppy seeds in our locale. Plus a great many South American and African plant seeds. There is even an Avocado Tree doing very well the we planted near our river.

Thanks Kiera, I thought I recongnized the location. visted so many forts they all start to blur into one and other in my memory.

Yes you can. We purchsed all of our appliances in France. I would also look online for big savings. Our Smeg oven cost 300€ less online. Stainless stell is called INOX here.Try searching via yahoo.fr shopping (keelko). Remember the model numbers differ from Europen goods and British goods. Check out a few manufactures websites (in .fr) to find what you afe after.

There are a couple of office suplly shops in Narbonne have a look in the yellow pages (www.pagesjaunes.fr).

On French Autoroutes the are signs posted giving the cost of fuel in the next few services stations along the way. The price can be upto 10 cents differnt between Autoroute service stations.

Seems to me your village nick-name will change form 'Pussy galore' to Pussy NoMore'