Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Living in France means dealing with the French Bureaucracy. It’s both easier and harder than one expects.
There are days when I am not certain which the French love best: their food? or their rules?Some say rules are meant to be broken. Not the French. Here they are meant to be enforced, even if that means flying in the face of all logic and intelligent thought. We have been trying to import … Continue reading…
I think we're done! Our 4-part Saga (see parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI) in getting all of the paperwork, permissions, etc. done to legally reside in France, is finally coming to an end…sort of. Two weeks ago we got the dreaded letter from the 'Powers That Be' regarding our 'Cart Vitale' or French … Continue reading…
We have our 'Titre de Sejour', our permission to live in France. We thought, mistakenly, that once that hurdle had been jumped the rest would be easy. Well, there we go 'thinking' again! How foolish. (if you are curious and have not been following the Saga here are parts I, II, III, IV, V) We … Continue reading…
Life is different here. Sometimes it differs in glaring ways: language, eating habits, food, and sometimes in subtle ways, such as check writing. When we first moved to Ireland we did all the normal things of any move: notified the post office, changed our address, opened a bank account and ordered new checks. Expecting to … Continue reading…
We are now the proud holders of unexpired 'Titre de Sejour''s. They arrived last week, in record time (this time…actually it was probably a record last time, too see Parts I – IV) and are valid for almost 9 whole months! That means I don't have to start the renewal process for 6 whole months! … Continue reading…
Back home in France I take out the T-Mobile chip and pop in the SFR chip. It searches for a network and promptly finds one – Orange (another network for those not in the know). So, hop in the car and drive to the SFR store and explain my problem. It's blocked, they tell me. … Continue reading…
First, the important part: We are off to Portugal for 10 days with our old golfing group from Andorra…a little sun, a little golf, a little gossip, a little vinho… It should be great fun, but, alas, I won't have easy computer access (plus I'll be busy trying to remember how to play golf) so … Continue reading…