13/08/201806/03/2021 Vanessa in France

British, French or Irish? Or all Three?

03/10/201503/10/2021 Vanessa in France

Where there’s Smoke…Beware of the Smoke Detector Scam

27/07/201527/07/2015 Vanessa in France

Another Seasonal Hazard in SW France: Mosquitoes

20/02/2015 Vanessa in France

How to Queue in France

17/06/201406/12/2020 Vanessa in France

The Good French Pedestrian

31/01/2014 Vanessa in France

Maiden Name or Married Name?

21/12/201322/12/2013 Vanessa in France

To Crèche or Not To Crèche

21/09/201311/10/2013 Vanessa in France

Two Rants in One Week – Électricité de France and Health Bureaucracy

31/01/2013 Vanessa in France

Bouquet of Barbed Wire

30/11/201227/06/2021 Vanessa in France

Carte de Séjour – French Identity Card: Round 1

31/10/201231/10/2012 Vanessa in France

Don’t Hold Your Breath – the French Breathalyser Saga

15/04/201227/01/2014 Vanessa in France

Customer Service (?) in France

12/01/201230/12/2012 Vanessa in France

Let’s Stub it Out!

22/10/2011 Vanessa in France

Poubelle-watch

15/10/201113/09/2020 Vanessa in France

Giving Cold Callers the Cold Shoulder

01/09/201128/04/2016 Vanessa in France

Refuse Rubbish!

27/08/201127/08/2011 Vanessa in France

14 years today plus a word in praise of EDF

07/05/201114/05/2011 Vanessa in France

Ten reasons not to have a swimming pool

30/03/2011 Vanessa in France

A lexicon of French builder-speak

17/02/201101/04/2011 Vanessa in France

French sanitary arrangements: NOT one of the reasons I moved to France

29/01/201101/04/2011 Vanessa in France

Broadband blues

09/01/201101/04/2011 Vanessa in France

You can bank on bureaucracy in France

24/09/201027/01/2014 Vanessa in France

Shopping in France # 2: Customer service

18/07/201002/12/2020 Vanessa in France

How to drive like the French

10/07/201007/07/2017 Vanessa in France

The good guest guide

04/04/201001/04/2011 Vanessa in France

Sexism is alive and well in France

28/02/201001/04/2011 Vanessa in France

Maybe la chasse isn’t such a bad thing…

22/02/201001/04/2011 Vanessa in France

Votes for expats?