Archive for the 'Living in France' Category

Champions du CP et du CE1: birth of the instructional and fun magazine in France in 2008

November 25th, 2008

A new breed of magazine for children 5 to 7 has come out in France in 2008.  ‘Champions du CP‘ and ‘ Champions du CE1‘, which can be translated as: ‘ First Grade Ace‘ and ‘ Second grade Ace‘ are high quality, 80 page magazines for kids that combine:

 edutational content typical of high end children’s [...]

Lulu, a character from the popular Astrapi children’s magazine in France, has a popular blog

July 14th, 2008

A nice initiative from the writers and illustrators at Astrapi, a leading children’s magazine for the 9 to 11 year old crowd, in the country that invented the concept 30 years ago: France, with Bayard Presse Publishing. Lulu, one of the star characters in a cartoon in the magazine, now has her blog!
Its truly fascinating [...]

Buying a house in France: not easy!

June 3rd, 2008

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 its network’s [...]