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great site, thanks.

Is there any alternative to the £10 a day parking charge at Portsmouth docks? If you stay for 6 days its £60, thats way more than airport parking.

My address in France i simply Le Bourg, along with half of the village, the post seems to find its way.

Yep, PTFE tape was soundly used!

As i posted the initial question i feel duty bound to update you all with the fact that i bought a new gas cooker from Darty along with a connecting cable (199euro for the lot) i have installed the cooker and it is working fine. Nothing more than a spanner needed! Thanks for all the feedback, even the scaremongers!

This is exactly what i want to install so i feel confident now to proceed. Thanks Le Plombier.

Thanks for all the help. Looking at the websites it looks like if i buy the cooker and a connecting hose i should be able to connect it to a 13kg butane cylinder myself.

I am wanting to replace an ageing cooker that runs from bottled butane with a new one. Are there any special regulations for fitting such cookers or can it be done DIY. What type of connection is used, the current one has a simple screw on connection fitted to the rubber hose.

Hi ecarinsurance.co.uk offer 12 months as standard in their policies.

I am planning to take a canoe/kayak to France in a couple of weeks, do you need a licence to go on rivers and lakes?

Thanks for the help, next time i am over in France i will be loaded down with info from the links kindly provided. Wish me luck!!

This has all probably been covered before but i have searched and can't find an answer. I am based on the Sarthe/ Normandy border. I know my equipment will receive BBC1 , 2, ITV etc. because the previous owner left the decoder and satellite when he sold me the house, but i can only get BBC world news and SKY Int news. I am tuned into Astra 2 at about 90% signal, have i not got a strong enough signal or am i a tuned into the wrong satellite? Along with loads of other satellites i notice Astra 1D is an option.    

I bought a house from a private advert on the FPN site, lots of other private sales on there.

Pierre Thanks for the quick response, i will try that next time i am in France.

Hi I have just bought a holiday home in Sarthe and when i visited at the weekend for the first time the dish had moved in the wind, i managed to manually move the dish and picked up Hotbird and Astra sats but this only gets me bbc news and sky news, i know the previous owner got bbc 1, 2 itv etc with the same equipment, am i tuning to the wrong sat? any help welcome. Location is 72130, Sarthe.