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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
Problems of private plates
Be aware, if you have private car number plates you wish to sell and are about to move to France, make sure to sell them BEFORE the move.
I had hoped to sell mine but was informed by the DVLA that this was not possible as the car had been officially exported and needed to be “available for inspectionâ€.
Their advice was to take the car back to the UK, re-register, MOT the car and then the plates could be sold – highly impractical!
Interestingly, the UK website through which I had hoped to sell seemed unaware of this.
Peter Hays, by email