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For the winter its nothing via Poitiers and 3 times a week to La Rochelle.

Have you or your agent been noting the reactions of potential buyers? If you haven't even been getting viewings it suggests that there is either a major problem with the locality or you have overpriced the property. I hope you haven't made the mistake of over improving , such that you have  priced yourself out of the local market. If you are relying on a sale to a UK buyer unless you have really unique property things are not going to get any easier as the credit squeeze tightens.  

and  hauled away 4 Mailians So the Gendarmes agree with Red Ken do they? Reading the Daily Mail should be made an arrestable offence.[:D]

Your nearest VO is the UGC in Bordeaux.

Its true as long as you have a very low income.

So its a plan to build 327 home in village of 1000 people. planned by a Dutch company who will be aiming it at prosperous north european purchasers. Not hard to see why the boss of the Conseil Regionale, the socialist Philip Martin might be able to play on local fears that the character of the village would change. You can see some of the local feelings, newspaper reports at  http://auzan.superforum.fr/Auzan-Demain-f5.htm

The earlier link should be http://www.le-guide.com/climate.html Not that it seems to have much to do with the rest of the debate.....

Timetable to the end of March http://www.bergerac.aeroport.fr/infosvols/index.php Though I know its wrong as far as EM is concerned as they don't restart til Mid April.

Long Term the charge is 20 Euros per week, or 30 Euros a month. I think there may be a lot of lost tickets, as the charge for a lost ticket seems to be set at 20 Euros............

From Yellow Pages....... Cyberbase Pyramide 1 pl du marechal Juin 31800 Saint Gaudens .05 61 94 66 45 fax : .05 61 94 66 46 Mail :   info@mjc-st-gaudens.org

I'm afraid its a terrible warning to anyone tempted to translate from English to French using Google. You can guess what has happened. The website creator translated an initial  menu for them, and they now  keep the French menu up to date, but the English menu is preserved in aspirin, or should that be aspic? Some of the errors are quite easy to work backwards greedy menu  (menu gourmande) inspiration of the head (L'inspiration du Chef) jumped vegetables (Sautee..... ) But I'm a bit worried about click on the pictures for an enlargement, its a bit too close to all those dodgy emails I have to delete every day.

why not offer him a proper translation Yes if Dick were to offer his services, the chef might suffer sauces that split, but his infinitives would not.

I don't know anything about the place, but it has one of the funniest English menus that I have seen for some time. http://www.aubergedumoulin.fr/

It (briefly) showed a Brit who though he had a website for his luxury gite in the Dordogne was still claiming , and been given, both RMI and free health cover. Though he had been rumbled, and pursued by the authorities, when FR3  sent a potential customer with a hidden camera, he was quite happy to show what was available and the price per week. He still has his website. When challenged by the reporter the very next day he said that he was entitled to the RMI as he no longer rented out the property. However the Brit element was a very small part of the programme. It was also small beer compared to the Pakistani accountant who admitted selling "packs" of false papers, including, payslips and redundancy notices which had enabled thousands to claim unemployment pay. He said that were similar networks in the Turkish, Maroc, and East European communities. he didn't mention any UK competition so perhaps there is a business opportunity for one of us.........  

On a visit to our french bank a confused old gentleman wanted to withdraw some money from his account. He was told he would have to use the machine outside as they didn't pay out cash over the counter. He asked for assistance with the machine, but was given a firm Non!. They said they had already shown him how to use the machine on numerous occasions. Looking helpless  he asked what he should do, and was told to ask a passer by for help! Fortunately he had his PIN number written on a piece of paper in inch high characters................  On using the machine myself I was pleased to note the bank's concern for security as they have a warning notice pointing out the need for discretion when entering the code.....  

Type your number into the box and it will tell you the current situation. http://www.dslvalley.com/ Do let us know what you find out.

Do you know when booking opens? I see that they are talking about bringing it into service at the same time as Poitiers Bordeaux ie 2016+

Gives you all you need to know http://www.haras-nationaux.fr/portail/index.php?id=3363&MP=2746-3367

This appears to be the manual for your type of cooker http://www.ariston-france.fr/ariston/_pdf/manuals/19503730005_IT-UK-FR-SP-PO.pdf Page 17 gives the lighting instructions. Lighting the oven burner • open the oven door; • press and turn the thermostat knob "V" (with the symbol) and set it to maximum; keep it pushed. Should there not be any electric energy, hold a lighted match near the central hole on the oven bottom as in fig.3; • keep the knob pressed in for around 10 seconds; • release the knob, checking that the flame is stable release the knob, checking that the flame is stable, and hold the door open for approximately 30-40 seconds; • Close the oven door carefully to prevent the flame fromgoing out; • wait around 10-12 minutes before placing any food to becooked into the oven, so as to preheat the oven suitably; • set the temperature required for cooking by turning the thermostat knob to the positions ranging from 1 to 8 according to the following table: Important: if the burner flame accidentally goes out, the gas continues to exit for a few moments before the safety device activates. Turn the control knob to the off position and do not attempt ignition again for at least 1 minute, thereby letting the gas disperse, which could otherwise be a danger.

The Complete Programme Vendredi 23 juin 2006 à 18H30 Vegastar Têtes Raides Sinsemilia Starsailor Hurlements d'léo La Goutte aux Nez (Fanfare) Pendant les changements de plateaux Samedi 24 juin 2006 à 18H30 Neïmo Bénabar Simple Minds Marcel et son Orchestre Dub Incorporation Bagapas (Batucada) Pendant les changements de plateaux

A single page website offering holidays, weekends, workshops based around music and recording studio. They are in the Limousin the "undiscovered" part of France. Sorry I couldn't resist that. Its just that recently every TV programme that mentions France seems to be about the undiscoverd L.......

http://www.music.limousinholiday.com/ Works OK for me. Must be a Mac thing!

Until July 2007 only professional users can go to the alternative suppliers. Until then Edf ,or the few local exceptions, have a monopoly as far as individuals are concerned.

 we are expected to provide documentation in just about any language But France isn't so PC as the UK. At times I suspect that is one of its attractions to many of the Brits who are moving there.

Don't know your company, but it is pretty unusual to include a fireplace in the base spec. Are you sure that it wasn't simply the  "upstairs" chimney up through the roof  that was included?. Many French people wait for two years before adding the actual fireplace, insert and chimney breast taking advanatge of the old TVA @ 5.5%. Did the plans  and spec of the house show a chimney breast and fireplace? The specs usually detail all the plugs and sockets, plus the nasty sink and drainer in the kitchen! In our case the pictures included a fireplace, but the spec amd plans simply showed a reinforced floor and a pipe sticking out of the ceiling.