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Having looked through most of the threads, overtime I have accumulated some great Weblinks and feel it would be nice to try and get these all together, so if anyone has links they feel would benefit us all then please post below.
Here are a few to be going on with:
Telephone
http://www.paris.francetelecom.fr/multimedia/price_list.pdf
http://www.paris.francetelecom.fr/html/particulier/offres_dediees/englishcom/accueil.htm
http://site.voila.fr/FT_LesTarifs/index.html
http://www.budgetelecom.com/newOne/index.asp

Electric
http://www.edf.fr/html/en/index.html

Sattelite
http://www.lyngsat.com/tracker/europe.shtml
http://www.netcentral.co.uk/satcure/
http://www.satelliteonline.co.uk

BBC Tel Nos for Free to View card
0870 243 8000

General
http://www.amb-grandebretagne.fr/consular_services/index.jsp?folder_id=104132&folder_id_parent=11

Car Insurance
http://www.eurofil.com

Internet Providers
http://www.lesproviders.com/
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Hi all, feel free to take a look, it was easier for me to do it this way, sorry for being lazy....

Shops & stores: Mr.Bricolage, Intermarche, Leclerc, Bricolage &
Auchan, France Telecom in English

Airlines & airports: Aeroport de La Rochelle, London Ciy Airport (LCY), Aroport de Bordeaux- Mrignac, Air France UK, Buzz , British Airways.

loads more links on the web page, some links are more Dept 17 but feel free to browse at

http://www.rick.inuk.com/frenchbookmarks.htm

Rick
(sadly still in UK for at least 15 more years by the look of it)
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Tim

Great idea !

Our contributions (some duplications - sorry !) :

Some of our past/present links to interesting (some less than others !) French and UK websites :

British Embassy/Consular Services in France (very useful summaries and links about lots of things, including tax, inheritance, health, residence, pets passports etc) :
http://www.amb-grandebretagne.fr/consular_services/index.jsp?folder_id=104132&folder_id_parent=196

Guide to public services (some in English) :
http://www.service-public.fr/etranger/english.html

Prefecture of Charente Maritime :
http://www.charente-maritime.pref.gouv.fr/

European Commission :
http://europa.eu.int/europedirect/en/index_en.html

Couverture Medicales Universelle (CMU) :
http://www.cnamts.fr/ass/cmu/somcmu.htm

CPAM for Charente Maritime (French social security, incl CMU) :
http://www.cpam-larochelle.fr/

Charente Maritime Tourism :
http://www.charente-maritime.org/

French electricity board :
http://www.edf.fr/html/en/index.html

French water board :
http://www.saur.com/en/home.php

France Telecom :
http://www.francetelecom17.com/

French postal service :
http://www.laposte.fr/

French rail system (yes they still have one, unlike UK !) :
http://www.voyages-sncf.com/

Weather forecasts :
http://www.meteo.fr/temps/index.html

Michelin maps/routes :
http://www.viamichelin.com/

French embassy in London :
http://www.ambafrance.org.uk/

British embassy in Paris :
http://www.amb-grandebretagne.fr/

French yellow pages :
http://wgc.pagesjaunes.fr/pj.cgi?

"Liberation" newspaper :
http://www.liberation.com/

French road info (I think ...) :
http://www.equipement.gouv.fr/

Bordeaux Airport :
http://www.bordeaux.aeroport.fr/home.asp?lang=en

and most important of all ... Bordeaux IKEA !!!
http://www.ikea.fr/ikea_near_you/local_store/bordeaux/store.asp

UK DSS (well, now Work and Pensions ...) :
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/

UK Dept of Health :
http://www.doh.gov.uk/

UK Inland Revenue :
http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/home.htm

and some of the particular people/companies we used :

French tax advice : Charles Parkinson at Pannell Kerr Forster (Guernsey). Their book on "Taxation in France" is a must buy at about 25 :
http://www.pkfguernsey.com/

Legal advice (on house purchases, wills, PACS) : Matthew Cameron at Prettys Solicitors, Ipswich :
http://www.prettys.co.uk/

Insurance broker : Gaye Galliver of British Insurance Brokers of Aquitaine :
E-mail : [email protected]

Mortgage Broker : Michelle Templeton of Templeton Associates :
www.templeton-france.com

UK Bank (including Internet Banking and Money Transfers via TAPS) :
http://www.bankofscotland.co.uk/

French bank (including Internet Banking) :

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    This is such a good idea, trouble is it will end up as a "flame" topic and have so much on it that people won't be bothered to look.

    Eleanor, can we split this into "Links for shopping", "Links for banking", "links for French utilities", "Links for UK Gov departments" etc etc etc.

    To add to the general mayhem I have some:

    SHOPPING (BRANCHES THROUGHOUT FRANCE)

    WWW.BUT.FR (site has pictures of products if your French isn't fluent!!!)

    UK GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS

    www.defra.gov.uk (animal pet passports and the like)


    SATELLITE & TV

    www.bigdishsat.com
    www.channel4.com
    www.bbc.co.uk
    www.itv.com

    TRAVELLING

    www.eurotunnel.com
    www.raileurope.co.uk
    www.french-airports.com


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    Folks

    and for anyone who's interested in alternatives to the thinly veiled tabloids of the Murdoch Times/Sunday Times :

    Guardian Weekly - weekly newspaper available in France by subscription, includes extracts from La Monde and Washington Post :

    www.guardianweekly.co.uk

    Guardian on-line, with free news e-mail subscriptions :

    www.guardianunlimited.co.uk

    Financial Times on-line, with free news e-mail subscriptions :

    www.ft.com

    Expatica.com, with free English language e-mails of latest headline news in France :

    www.expatica.com/france.asp

    Hope some of above may be of interest !

    Best wishes

    Chris and Martin


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    Folks

    and for anyone who's interested in alternatives to the thinly veiled tabloids of the Murdoch Times/Sunday Times :

    Guardian Weekly - weekly newspaper available in France by subscription, includes extracts from La Monde and Washington Post :

    www.guardianweekly.co.uk

    Guardian on-line, with free news e-mail subscriptions :

    www.guardianunlimited.co.uk

    Financial Times on-line, with free news e-mail subscriptions :

    www.ft.com

    Expatica.com, with free English language e-mails of latest headline news in France :

    www.expatica.com/france.asp

    Hope some of above may be of interest !

    Best wishes

    Chris and Martin


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    A useful hint in how to take your Internet Explorer bookmarks with you:

    On the top line menu, go to File/Import and Export and click on it. The Import & Export Wizard programme starts, choose export Favourites. It will display the contents of the Favourites folder, you decide which sub-folder you wish to save, or, if you want all of them, highlight the Favouries folder, and all of the subfolders will be exported in one.

    I will then ask where you wish to place the saved Favourites, usually defaulting to the My Documents folder (you can change the destination if you wish, to another folder of your choice).

    Click on the "next" button, the wizard goes to the next page and click "Finish". the programme will tell you via a pop-up button, when the the export is complete and a document called Bookmarks.html will have been created in your chosen folder. You can carry then around with you on a floppy disk, but better still, upload the document to a website and get international access to you bookmarks.

    Most IPs provide you with limited amount of web space, so upload the Bookmark.htm (or html) to your IPs file path using a prog such as WS FTP Pro - a file transfer tool. In my case visit :

    http://www.rick.inuk.com/bookmark.htm

    feel free to take a look to see the final result & use the links if you wish.

    The page can now be accessed anywhere, on a Pals computer in the UK or in an Internet Cafe in Paris. You can also upload Word, Excel documents, scanned in building plans, legal documents or computer programs there, but beware, ISPs frown on "unofficial" use of storage space, and reserve the right to close your site down unless the items uploaded are being used on your "website" as you are using up their server storage space.

    Enjoy.......
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