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try10 tips to help you settle in France
9th November 2011 - 08:11So, you have made the big move to France and a whole new life awaits you. These are exciting times and you will doubtless be extremely busy for some time to come, adjusting to your new life, taking care of practicalities and making sure your family are all in good shape. It is important to embrace your new surroundings and integrate into your community straightaway. How do you go about this? Here are my top 10 tips to an easy adjustment to your new life in France. 1. From more...
Handling visitors
28th September 2011 - 08:43When you make the bold move of coming to live in France – or even if you spend a fair amount of time in your second home there – you are likely to become much more interesting to your friends and family and you may well find many of them inviting themselves to stay. Take this as a compliment. You will find great pleasure in seeing your new home through their eyes. To make their stay enjoyable for all, there are several things you can do to ensure everything runs more...
How to combat homesickness
17th August 2011 - 03:21Moving home is always both an exciting and stressful experience. Moving abroad takes time and a great deal of planning. When the day comes that you finally leave the UK to live in France, you will likely feel a mixture of excitement, anticipation and perhaps just a little fear. After all, you are starting a new life in a different country and even though France is our nearest neighbour, it is still completely different and you will need time to adjust. The key to a more...
What to do in your first month in France
6th July 2011 - 08:13I can still vividly remember the first few days of our life in France. Surrounded by packing boxes, not entirely sure of where anything was but so happy to think we were finally there: here was our new home. Yes, it needed work doing to it and yes, to be honest, we weren’t really sure where to start but we were proud and happy to know that we had bought our little corner of France. Any move brings with it some stress and moving abroad naturally brings with it more...
What to do when you first arrive in France
25th May 2011 - 04:43So you have finally done it: you have found your own little corner of France and are now the proud owner of your new home. I can still remember putting the large key in the door of my first French home and feeling a great sense of pride and achievement. Chances are you may be sitting amongst a pile of as yet unopened boxes wondering where to start now that the real donkey work of finding your property has been done. My advice to you here is to give yourself a large more...