Spring into April in France with a fabulous short break to Rouen, Normandy. Foot passengers can travel from Portsmouth to Le Havre or Newhaven to Dieppe with DFDS from as little as £15 each way (based on a 5 night stay), or from £39 each way with a car and up to two passengers. This [...]
Spring is in the air in the north of France and with a plethora of festivals and events in villages and towns all over the region of Nord-Pas de Calais it’s the perfect time for a short break to shake off the winter blues. Steamy weekend Train enthusiasts will love the Baie de Somme’s [...]
If you travel regularly to the continent from the UK then MyFerryLink have a great offer for you. Their frequent traveller scheme offers great value fixed price travel starting from £25 per crossing for a car and up to 9 passengers if you buy 24 single tickets. Prices for 18 single tickets are £27 per [...]
Myferrylink Dover Calais ferry route was launched on 20 August 2012. The company owned by Eurotunnel employs many former Sea France personnel and operates two of the previously owned Sea France ferries (the company went into liquidation earlier in 2012) – The Rodin and the Berlioz. Myferrylink operates 16 journeys per day starting at £35 [...]
French train company SNCF have launched iDBUS, a long distance coach travel service in Europe. The new service will bring a new model of high quality budget coach travel to Europe including a London to Paris and Paris to Lille route. SNCF say that they intend to meet the increasing and changing demand for sustainable [...]
Dover to Dunkirk Ferry services are operated by DFDS Seaways (formerly known as Norfolk Line Ferries). The crossing time on the DFDS ferry takes a little longer at 2 hours than the crossing to Calais (1 ½ hours) and quite a bit longer than Eurotunnel to Calais (35 minutes) but it is pretty much often the [...]
Brittany Ferries was formed by a group of Farmers in the 1970s and its primary aim then was to transport vegetables from France to the UK. Celebrating its 40th Anniversary in 2012 the company is going strong and is still largely owned by the same group of farming co-operatives but these days it is one [...]
Eurotunnel is generally the fastest way to cross the channel with your vehicle. Unlike the ferries poor weather doesn’t usually affect the services on Eurotunnel – though this is not guaranteed, the snow in 2011 certainly had an effect. Board the train at Ashford in Kent and alight at Sangatte in Calais just 35 minutes [...]
P&O Ferries established ferry services in the United Kingdom in the late 1960′s in the North Sea and the English Channel and since then they have remained one of the most popular routes for travel between the UK and Europe. P&O Ferries introduced a new vessel to their fleet in 2011 – Spirit of Britain, [...]
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The papers are currently full of news about proposals to mount wind turbines on the beaches of Normandy – including at least one of the D-Day landing beaches. Some newspapers are calling it an “invasion” – emotional words, and this is a very provocative subject. The proposal is to erect 75 of the huge [...]
The Good Life France talks to Roger St Pierre – an award-winning writer who has visited every one of France’s 94 metropolitan departments as a cyclist, journalist, author and Francophile… Roger, who The Good Life France is honoured to include amongst its very talented group of writers, tells me he taught himself French by [...]
Well, it is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that the sheep across the road has gone to the great pasture in the sky. When I bought my house nine years ago it came with a sheep! The lady who owned the house before me had let the man across the road [...]
The allure of the good life in France and the charms of the beautiful town of Beziers ensnared British expat Mark Binmore who runs the highly successful Maison de l’Orb, a beautiful B&B. Mark told us that he lived in London since the early 1990s, worked as a pub landlord for several breweries, is the [...]
Expats in France Donna and Dave Faulkner fell in love with Deux-Sevres in the Poitou-Charentes region when they visited friends who lived there. When Dave was unexpectedly offered a job – they said goodbye to Britain and jumped head first into life in France in their new home which needed a bit of renovation as [...]
British expat Sue Aitken lives in south west France and runs Blackhen Education – a business that she set up after planning to move to Spain to be a teacher. She and her partner travelled through France on their way to jobs and a life in Spain but they fell in love with [...]
How two Brits met and changed their lives with a move to France… Chris was a veteran of 30 years in the Metropolitan police, running his own outdoor activity business specializing in mountain biking, walking and climbing, father to three grown-up children and mentor to many more. Charlotte was a classic single “Social Butterfly”, [...]
I was recently asked to write about expats in France, people who leave their homes in all areas of the world to go to France to live. I thought back over the years about the many expats I’ve met, interviewed (I am a journalist not just a crazy person going round firing questions at [...]
