Foreign Perspectives

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How did I come to be writing Foreign Perspectives?

Well, a long, long time ago I thought that it would be nice to move to France as I figured that if I were living there it would feel like I was always on holiday. Unfortunately, I figured that no way could I live in France without actually speaking French so a number of years passed by whilst I did something about my French.

Then in 2003, we realised that the French was more than good enough and ’twas time to think about making the move so we started looking really seriously into the options. We’d a “looking for general areas” trip in July that year, went to the French Property Exhibition in September and took what turned out to be our buying trip that October.

As things got moving along, we kicked off a little newsletter to keep the folks back home up to date with our activities (the initial entries here). That sort-of fizzled out in 2005 as you can see from the number of posts mainly because we’d done the majority of new things so hadn’t anything much more to say in that line.

However, by the Summer of 2006 we’d such a buildup of things to talk about that we kicked off Foreign Perspectives to give us a forum for our “words of wisdom”. Of course, things aren’t static and this has evolved since then to become something of an expat cum travel blog for the most part but still with the snippets of news from the earlier incarnations.

Anyway, this little post is here as a marker to let you get in touch with me and to make comments that fall outside the remit of the various posts.

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