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I noticed something disturbing about international payments the other day. I thought it might be worth sharing as a warning to expats and travellers. We bought plane tickets online from an Australian airline, QANTAS. The prices listed on the website, in our confirmation and receipts were in Australi

Here’s a question posed by a French-English newspaper on Twitter. I saw it and instantly felt obliged to rant a little. I love France, but I do sometimes wish there was a little more internet usage around here. > Is France behind when it comes to the internet? Do you find it frustrating trying to [.

I just thought I should let you all know that I’ve made a Facebook Fan Page to collect all my best professional writing, including my work at MakeUseOf, NetSavoir, writings at Vegemite Croissant and more. Please feel free to “like” the Facebook Fan Page in order to keep updated. If Twitter is more y

We’re still plugging away at learning French ourselves, but we’ve hit upon some very good websites and ideas in our efforts to learn. So, I thought I’d share some resources I’ve put together about learning French: Twitter French Teachers List – This list of Twitter users is hand-picked to ensure alm

So, French handwriting is gorgeous. No, really. Everyone here has beautiful handwriting. Look: I was doing a little reading up on this and it turns out that the French have dedicated handwriting lessons throughout primary school. Plus, art lessons tend to focus a lot on calligraphy. It’s a big deal.

Our town just got what I believe to be its first pizza vending machine. I’ve never seen one of these before and I’m kind of excited. Firstly, it’s one of the better pizza bars that’s in charge of the machine. This is a good thing. Cheap pizza varies pretty wildly in France. I have high [...]

Buying a car in France seems to involve a lot of unexpected steps, so I thought I’d share what we’ve learned about it. Step 1: Car must be checked by garage The people selling the car need to take it to a garage and get it checked over sometime in the 6 months prior to [...]

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday we had an unexpected plate of crêpes at choir. The French people there said they always do crêpes on 2nd February and thought that it was funny that we couldn’t quite explain when the Australian pancake day (Shrove Tuesday) was, since it moves around each year and neith

I have put a little thought into the French Paradox since arriving in France. Michael Pollin’s book In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto has prompted me to articulate a little of what I’ve learned (but don’t always practise). Theories why the French, while living on rich foods, lots of oils, mea