Your new home is your pride and joy and you probably want to spend as much time in it as possible. If you truly want to settle in, however, make the effort to head out into your local community and embrace the French lifestyle.
American pin-up and former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson has relocated to the Côte d’Azur, where she’s moved in with her new beau in Marseille, the French footballer Adil Rami. The handsome couple haven’t been seen kicking a ball about on the beach yet, but if that freak wave should carry him off, Pamela’s life guarding skills will be handy.
Record dumps of snow in January, guaranteed EU rights, tax reforms that benefit British buyers and a Macron inspired French property market revival: all the signs point towards making 2018 the year you finally purchase that ski retreat in the French Alps.
With President Macron leading the French renaissance and your EU rights guaranteed if you move there in 2018, it’s no wonder so many are looking longingly towards our nearest neighbour. Paul Broadbent tells us his favourite places in France.
With two weeks until Christmas, you’ve got plenty of time to pop over for a shopping trip in our amazing Christmas markets. And if 2018 is the year you’re determined to make that dream come true, seriously, this is a great time to put a French cottage in your Christmas stocking!
