Beginners Questions To Learning French Answered Part 2

Let’s reply to some of the questions you may ask yourself if you are trying to learn basic French words.
1. Where to find basic French lessons audio?
There are many of these online. Just perform a search with your preferred search engine, and you will find plenty of sites in minutes.
2. How to speak French words [...]

Finding the Right Property in the Right Part of France

Buying property anywhere in the world can be a daunting task and if the country in which you choose to buy is not your own then there are additional stresses built into the process. If your knowledge of the language and legal system is lacking, then the stresses involved have the potential to become major [...]

A Week in Tokyo 51 Part 1

Image taken on 2010-02-25 10:07:52 by Danny Choo.

Driving abroad good or bad idea (part 2)?

New plan using the info gathered from all your answers.
I still intend to drive to greece.
Over 2600km from Calais to Greece
France
Germany
switzerland
Austria (by choice)
Italy
Greece
Ferry from Brindisi to Corfu, Then on into Greece.
Disembarking in Igoumenitsa.
Driving the 600km to Athens
On route,
ins is now covered
no visa req
I would never be more than 50km from fuel (in mainland europe) and [...]

I’m looking to go to France on holiday with my family can you recommend the best part to stay?

We want to stay in a villa with it’s own pool, we are travelling the first two weeks of june and would like hot/warm weather.

I own property in France, the barn we have is part owned but the other owner has died. What now?

My wife and I own a property in France with a barn. The barn we have is shared. However after doing some digging we have found the owner died leaving it to his heir and she too has died. There is no children and no other family alive. What happens to [...]

Hello From Victoria- Part 1 – Reaching The West Coast

Jetlag is an amazing thing. It’s barely after 5 am and I have already been reading for an hour an a half. So I figured I might as well use this bout of sleeplessness and record my first impressions of British Columbia.
My WestJet flight out of Toronto left a 7:15 am yesterday, so that meant [...]

Le Pays Lauragais in the Midi-Pyrenees, A Part of France Not to Be Missed

Le Pays Lauragais is the region that encompasses the Haute Garronne(31), Tarn (81) and Aude (11) departments in the South of France. I would imagine that most people are aware of Tarn, with it’s capital Albi, as an area of outstanding beauty but may be less familiar with the Aude and Haute Garronne departments, until [...]

Apprenons le Français /Let’s learn French – Numbers – part 1

Resource to supplement french learning from french-abc.blogspot.com. Focus is on Numbers. Kindly leave comments or suggestions for improvement. It shows howto count in French and howto pronounce also.

Battlefields and Football – Part 3 Stade de France

Amiens has a magnificent cathedral in the centre and some lovely cafes and bars down by the river. It looks like a lovely place to spend summer evenings. However, it was an early morning in March so all I was interested in was a few pictures before heading south towards Paris and meeting up with [...]

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