For you families who travel abroad, For you parents seeking a host family in another country for your teenagers, International Parents was designed with you in mind. By one of the Frenchparents network co founders! International Parents seeks to both stop short and go further than Frenchparents. To stop short of giving detailed local advice [...]
A friend of mine, a French journalist in France , maried to a Spaniard, with two teenage children, is working on developping a unique web based travel guide service for us, traveling families! Finally, she’s proposing to offer, for major cities worldwide: Travel info suited to families IE, not your typical: best restaurants and great [...]
As with most things in France, other than buying a baguette and going to the restaurant, buying a house is much more complicated than in North America. FEES: There are fees of course: Homes are not all listed in all real estate agencies. I know of one network, ORPI, that lists its properties through all [...]
They were envious, all of them. Whether Parisians or Californians, they said: « Hey you’re pretty lucky to be moving to the south of France for work ». The Marseille- Aix en provence region to be exact. Yeah, I knew the area was sunny, gorgeous, with tons of shops and cultural activities, I knew that. I [...]
Moving is always an ordeal, in particular with a family. Emptying out our closests, packing up all our belongings, moving our treasured furniture, is hard enough. Some will say the positive side is all the cleaning out this sort of event leads to: the stuff we store, and forget about! However in my recent experience [...]
