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Letters: This tip makes it very easy to set up a French phone number
Connexion reader reports on the advantage of using an eSIM while in France
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Comment: Visitors battle to open shutters but I know better
Columnist Samantha David notes that unlike her sun-searching relatives she has embraced the use of shutters to keep her home cool
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Comment: Why France is leading the secondhand fashion boom
Columnist Sarah Henshaw notes how French fashion is embracing preloved clothes
Nuclear plan is correct
Bravo Hulot! (Minister to delay decommissioning nuclear power stations).
It might be the smallest of steps in the right direction but at last someone has realised the obvious: the wind doesn’t blow to order, the sun doesn’t shine at night and electricity cannot be stored, so for France to arbitrarily commit to reducing its nuclear capacity and rely on so-called renewable sources of electricity will either hugely increase carbon dioxide emissions because of the need to burn coal, oil or gas to compensate or our lights will go out and our heating off.
Ian Halliday, Cantal