New low cost routes serving Dordogne region

Ryanair recently announced 4 new routes for SW France served from their newly formed base at Leeds-Bardford airport.

From March 2010 it plans to base two of its fleet at Leeds Bradford and will offer flights to Carcassonne, Limoges, Montpellier and Nantes. Limoges airport, situated just to the north of the region and only 75 mins drive from the Dordogne capital of Perigueux will shortly enoy this additional service to the region offering easier access from the North of the UKFlight times

This comes close on the heels of the announcment that Jet2.com would start a new service next year between Leeds Bradford and Bergerac.

Flights depart every Saturday from May 17, 2010, and will include an additional Tuesday service available between June 28 and September 12.

Prices start from £29.99 inclusive and are available for sale already - planned timetable is:

Leeds Bradford to Bergerac
Saturday, departs 8am, arrives 11am
Tuesday, departs 11.30am, arrives 2.30pm

Bergerac to Leeds Bradford
Saturday, departs 11.30am, arrives 12.30pm
Tuesday, departs 3pm, arrives 4pm

Do you have a French accent.... on your keyboard?

For those of you who have always wondered how you can type your French grammar correctly on an english keyboard, here are the shortcut keys to press for each. Practice and Enjoy!
á é í ó ú accent aigu Press Alt Gr + press vowel

è accent grave Ctrl + top left key (`) then press letter

ç c cedille left Ctrl + comma then press c

â accent circonflexe left shift + ctrl + 6 then press vowel

ü trema Shift + Ctrl +( ;) key then press letter

Now you have no excuse whe emailing your French friends!

UK car plates to French?

One of our cars, a left hand drive, that we recently purchased in the UK, is still currently on GB plates.  The car has been correctly exported from the UK and is insured in France. Naturally, we had intended to get the transfer or "rematriculation" to French plates in due course.

Having just recived a letter from our insurers, this has now gone up the priority list somewhat! - In short, the insurers have stated that following recent pressure from the French government, they will refuse to insure any vehicles, at renewal of the policy, that are not on French plates.

A fair cop guv!  and rightly so - for our useful guide on how to go about this click here: http://www.dordognepropertyagency.com/links/info.aspx

Tell us what you would like to know about living in France!

Hello to all "Francophiles" and lovers of France!

This is our first post on our blog and we love to hear from you!

My wife and I first moved permamently to the Dordogne region of France at the end of 2002, having made the decision to leave the UK for good. Our reasons for making the move were a straightforward combination of our desire to get of the UK (we were becoming very concerned about the decline of quality of life) and the simpe fact that we loved France as a country.

We gave up our regular contact with friends and family, quit our very comfortable jobs in the UK and took the leap, having decided to set up a business as professional registered estate agents - see http://www.dordognepropertyagency.com/

We have since moved house three times, got married here (one of the most magical days imaginable) have been blessed with our two lovely sons and we are loving every minute of our lives here in France.

In our business lives we now spend our time helping many other people to acheive the same dream.......therefore:

We are posting our first blog to now ask all of you, what is it that you would like to know about life in France? Do you have questions about property or the market here? Are you thinking of making the move yourselves?

Please tell us about any subject that you would like our comments on. This is very much an experiment for us as we are new to the world of blogging - hopefully we can help some others who would also like to "make the leap" whilt creating some interesting discussion threads at the same time.


Hope to hear from you soon!
Tony - Dordogne Property Agency