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And they will also take 18% of any gains made because the exchange rate has dropped.

one of the Transmanche ships is about to begin operating the LD Lines Portsmouth-Le Havre route It started last Sunday night with the Le Havre to Portsmouth crossing. Should be trying it out in Friday.  

CD- or + R and DVD - or + Rs from Amazon.fr are a fraction of the price that you can get them in the supremarkets or 'puter shops The special taxes on DVDs, CDRs etc explains part of that difference. I believe the specific tax on 50 CDRs amounts to 17 Euros, and the same tax on DVDs is about 10 Euros. Its lucky for Amazon that they can at least avoid that tax even if they do have to add French VAT.      

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As La Francaise des Jeux has a legal monopoly, France will definitely be  one of the countries that the UK lottery has in mind when it reminds buyers about possible complications if tickets are purchased when abroad. What we don't know is whether they log the IP addresses of every single ticket purchased via the net.    

Transfer the outward  booking  to Limoges?  

I recall seeing an item on TF1 news where a UK tourist speeding south on the motorway was left stranded. The only person in the car who could drive had his licence impounded due to excess speed. They were taken to a hotel to await the arrival of a relative from the UK!      

Fares for next year should start to appear in the next few weeks.  

JR   ARe those prices including or excluding taxes?    

Pickles is right most of the French brands contain the Persil Bio type enzymes.  

You certainly do pay taxes on taxes, ie VAT on the local taxes. The main increase on the Heures Creuse tariff is the off-peak electric has increased by 9.3%. The ordinary day rate on HC has gone up by 4.3%. If you only use about 6000 units per year then the reductions in the standing charge are sufficient to bring the increase back to the headline 1.9%. However the more you use the larger will be the average increase. This gives a comparison. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xNnXCuHLF98/So2iVYmBdzI/AAAAAAAAAHs/ZtVPNuYg7pM/s1600-h/D%C3%A9composition+bar%C3%A8mes+base+et+HPHC+EDF.jpg By the way the Edf site has always shown the rates TTC, or more accurately a typical rate TTC, because the local taxes do vary.        

But if it's the other way round   Chasse Reserve   The meaning is also reversed!   IE Private Shooting!  

It's 12% if you are selling goods, but 21.3% if you are providing a service. A slightly lower percentage 18.3% applies if you are amongst the professions liberales. It reflects the higher percentage of labour cost implicit in providing a service rather than selling goods.   http://www.auto-entrepreneur.fr/charges-sociales-creation-entreprise-individuelle.php

So they have billed you the fixed charge for two visits TTC (Tax inclusive). Are you intending to do this for every visit?  

Not sure that being a fine artist necessarily makes for being a good minister. Incidentally Gilberto Gill resigned from the Brazilian government last year. As for France and the UK you say there is no comparison between the two incumbents. Well they are both ex broadcasters and prominent members of the gay community......  

the magistrate of the parquet floor Presumably working very closely with the bench, they look for things swept under the carpet!

Guess what...??? It's a urban myth! http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Urban-myth-Bristol-Zoo-parking-attendant/article-1073841-detail/article.html

The fact that it is only a one night booking suggests that they are touring, or en route for somewhere. Whatever the reason it's not unreasonable of them to reject your offer of alternative dates. It's not what they need. You need  to break the contract,.They are entitled to some recompense for breach of contract. In order to pacify things...... You could arrange for someone to be present. You could find an alternative place for them to stay and pay any additional costs. You could offer  them the compensation of double their deposit. It's unlikely that they would consider it worthwhile to go to law having already received compensation. Look at it from their point of view. They had planned ahead, sorted their accommodation, now they are in the merde. They are understandably not very happy, especially if local alternatives are scarce.    

If anyone could give me an explain .... Brits have always had a reputation for being stand-offish. Perhaps you could try again in another part of France.

No it's the other way around.. LD Lines operate the Transmanche services on behalf of and under contract to the local Council.

That works out at £153 per claim. So unless people are so desperate that they are flooding the companies with very small claims, I assume that's just the admin costs involved in refuting the claims. As for the £40 per person, does that imply that there are only 1 million policies out there..... Statistics!

Strange that what he admires is a result of massive state intervention. Precisely the kind of intervention that many contributors on this site consistently despise. In  France, things were different: they invested in car production, the TGV train network, aeroplane manufacture and nuclear power.

I see that France must be  edging its way towards PC behaviour. Claire's recipe is headed................"   Têtes de choco - anciennement ' tête de nègre "   [:)][:)][:)][:D]

I am told by my French colleagues that there will be a general strike tomorrow in France, Thursday 19th March but I have not seen it mentioned on this forum. Enjoy your extra holiday!

I think the problem is that like many utilities gradually facing up to rising costs and competition La Poste was looking for ways of increasing it's income. So it came up with this idea of forcing anything other than letters to use the parcels service. Irrespective of whether or not it was legal to do this , they ignored one major problem. How to enforce it, especially if many of the counter staff probably thought it to be a daft idea anyway. So in practice it has been very easy to ignore the rule, unless you happen to encounter a counter person whop is a stickler for the rules. Once a package is in the post it's going to be even harder to enforce, short of the delivery person waiting to see the letter opened and collecting a surcharge at the delivery end. I did think of designing a letter bending machine and seeing if I could interest La Poste. The idea would be to bend each item to 90 degrees% , anything fragile would break, but there would be no right to compensation, as the goods shouldn't have been there in the first place!