Riviera Reporter Your Say - December 2007 http://www.rivierareporter.com Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:08:36 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.rivierareporter.com/component/option,com_myblog/show,Expat-Voting-in-French-Municipals.html/Itemid,157/ <p>Sent by Sandra Shadrach, by email </p><br/><p>Thank you for the interesting article in your Oct/Nov issue about how to apply for a vote in the March 2008 local elections. I have just one supplementary question (having taken the format of the declaration from your website) ... and that is – do I have to go in person to the mairie, or can I post this to them? </p> Riviera Reporter Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:57:03 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/component/option,com_myblog/show,No-English-at-SFR---Discussion.html/Itemid,157/ <p>Sent by Anna Mitchell, by email </p><br/><p>I have just received a phone call in French. My French is pretty basic so I asked the caller to talk more slowly. This she did. I understood perhaps half, but it was not good enough. She then said in excellent English: “I am sorry but I am not allowed to speak English – only French.”&nbsp; When I asked in English who she was, I was told SFR!</p><br/><p>I have been in France over 5 years and never felt particularly welcome here, now I KNOW I am not. I tol [...] Riviera Reporter Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:48:53 +0100