Even More Tips for Driving in France
1. When driving in France it’s important to know that the French frequently don’t use an upward-pointing arrow to mean straight on. Instead they use a right-pointing arrow on the left side of the road...
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1. When driving in France complications can arise if import your right-hand drive car as your vehicle will need to conform to French manufacture and use regulations. If it’s a model or make not on sale...
View ArticleWhy Foreign Tourists Love France
An article I read recently in the weekend T.V. supplement of the daily regional newspaper Le Progrès reveals some of the reasons so many of the 83 million annual foreign tourists fall head over heels...
View ArticleThe World’s Most Popular Holiday Destination
Some interesting statistics emerged from a recent survey conducted by the DGCIS (Direction générale en charge des questions de compétitivité), and the Banque de France which revealed that a total of...
View ArticleFrench Tourists Abroad
At this time of year when the annual summer holidays cause France to pull its shutters down for a month, the holiday reservation site Travelzoo carried out a survey on how their European subscribers...
View ArticleA Greener Shade of Amber and Red
The English might be forgiven for thinking that the French driver’s aspirations to covering the distance between departure and arrival in a time more commonly associated with the Monaco Grand Prix...
View ArticleAnother French Revelation
But my French holiday also brought about a different kind of revelation – that in this paradise on earth all was not roses, and in the grass here and there snakes were waiting to pounce on little...
View ArticleThe French Revelation
But what transformed a first flirtation into the beginning of a love affair was our summer school trip at the end of my second year. For at our school we were lucky enough to have a German teacher who...
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