Bonjour mes amis, We’ve had a bumper week of features, blogs, posts and articles and I’m thrilled to introduce a new writer to our team – veteran journalist and author of 33 books, Roger St. Pierre. Roger has been to every metropolitan department in France and we’re thrilled to be able to share his expertise [...]
Bonjour mes amis! This week we’ve published lots of features about how to find work in France. We often receive emails from people telling us that their dream is to come to France to live and work and they want to know where to start. So with the help of people who’ve upped sticks [...]
Bonjour mes amis and a big welcome to our newsletter for all our new friends. It seems that we really have said goodbye to winter’s icy grip and everywhere there is a feeling of spring in France. There are blossom filled trees, flowers bursting with colour, fruit trees budding and the farm animals are frisky [...]
Happy Poisson d’Avril to you all and I hope that you had a lovely Easter… We’ve updated our look! The website that is, not the hairdos or make up of the team members! We’ve made it faster, fresher and fancier – but still fun, fabulous and full of fantastic photographs! We’ve also been working hard [...]
Bonjour mes amis! There have been exciting developments behind the scenes here at The Good Life France as we’re revamping the site to make it look even better. This has a bit worrying for me as I am a complete technophobe but I’ve been watching the drafts and I hope that you’re going to love [...]
What a week we’ve had here at The Good Life France, we’re revamping and making the site easier to use as we’ve got so much information now – so if you’ve seen a bit of moving and grooving going on -apologies and please bear with us a bit longer, we think you’ll love the fruits [...]
It’s that time of year when we like to wish you all a Bonne St Valentin. If you dream of a French style Valentine’s Day at home we’ve got some tips to help you create a bit of ooh la la where ever you are! We spoke to a wine expert about what wines to [...]
Bonjour mes amis! After a fair bit of snow at the end of January it’s starting to feel a bit spring–like in most of France although there’s still plenty of time for more snow and cold spells! We don’t let the weather stop us here at The Good Life France though and we’ve got [...]
Bonjour mes amis! I send you this newsletter from my house in Pas de Calais in the north of France. The southerners call Nord-Pas de Calais the “North Pole of France” and it has certainly been cold the last week or so and the snow has fallen for several days as it has in much [...]
Dear friends and readers of The Good Life France We’d like to wish you a very happy New Year and hope that 2013 brings you success, good health, and happiness. We have an absolutely amazing editorial line up for this New Year – interviews with authors, cake makers, chefs, artisans, wine experts and so much [...]
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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 [...]
