Please join our NEW and improved page ALREADY@!!
we've created an even better FACEBOOK page. Please join!!

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and post questions .. how I hate this discussion board!!! and we're going to have get-togethers again!!

Announcement: Bonjour Paris has launched a FACEBOOK page.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/BonjourPariscom/139655946556?ref=mf

please join and who knows -- it may become a MUCH better discussion board. Let's try ;-)

According to what member "Karen" said on this forum:
I thought that you might be really interested in reading about topics presented below.
If you think that this is inappriopiate place for such post feel free to move it!


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Gear Miniview Trendnet - Cases for Your Gear
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Prada Womens Oregon - Grass farming and the circumjacence: fish and
Designer balance strings strings: handbag - Taylor Purse Velvet
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I agree with Al. The information from the writers would be so valuable. Most of us are busy and our time is limited. A quick glance is usually enought to pick out threads of interest.

I hope at least some of them will consider posting.

Al -- I will certainly request that our writers register for the discussion board and POST when they can.

I couldn't agree with you more!

I'm not admonishing them. It just seems being so close how could they resist every now and then? Especially when they probably know so many answers.

Al: How I wish the writers would post but their time is limited and they do make major contributions to Bonjour Paris.

......perhaps, you might entice them?

I notice that a very good percentage of the wonderful articles printed every Sunday in the Premium newsletter are written by ex-pats living in France. I also never,never,never (......well, hardly ever) notice a posting by them on our Forum.

I idly wonder is there some sort of contractual agreement that they dassent do this?

It's really easier and safer to sign up via the Internet!

http://www.bonjourparis.com/amember/signup.php


If you insist on sending a check --- you can do so here



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BUT -- it is going to take a while to be activated. $34.95 $$$$ per year!

Karen, I would suggest that you also include a "postal address" where checks can be mailed, as one can not send a letter to an e-mail address!.

BP Chuck

DEAR JAN....welcome to BP and looking forward to your future postings. I am quite surprised to hear that you feel the postings are quite mild. Since you are a premium member you could have looked into the archives and seen some beauties just following my postings. I think somebody referred to me as Peck's Bad Boy.....or maybe it was me referring to myself.

Was a bit surprised that you felt the British Social Security was remiss in the timing of your pension. My wife comes from London and she has a pension ...not much to speak of since she left dear old Blighty not too long after the war. However, the pension arrives every 4 weeks on the dot (we get a wire transfer to our NY bank.). I do think though that pension receivers in foreign countries are paused every ten years. If they don't hear from you they assume you're dead

Thank You, it should make it much easier!

BP Chuck

Thank you Chuck:

You're ever so right.

The yearly subscription cost is $34.95
You can pay by check or by credit card.
Here's the link.

http://www.bonjourparis.com/amember/signup.php

We hope many of you will utilize it. In advance, merci.

Karen, it may be a good idea, if you would mention how much the yearly subscription is (in $ and/or €), and also where to mail it. Some people may also would like to know if Credit Cars are aceptable (and which one(s).

BP Chuck

Jan-

Let me add another welcome to Bonjour Paris, and also a couple of points perhaps overlooked.

The Premium Subscriptions to BP allow access to the articles writeen over the years. We spend a fair amount of time in France, but for me these articles offer information on places I doubt I would have found otherwise. Since you have a subscription, take the time to poke around-I think you'll find some of interest.

The Bonjour Paris Web Boards-right here, where you are reading these words-are free. This is where the repartee you seek will occur, if indeed it does. I don't know the numbers but I imagine there are folks who don't subscribe but who do contribute posts to the Boards.

Like most other web boards I have seen, this one is a melange of folks coming from varying angles. A few live in or near Paris, others spend months a year there, some are regular visitors for a week or so at a time, some make a trip every year, many are looking for help for their first or second trip. Also like other boards, some drop in from time to time and some seem to live here.

Your many trips to France and your time living there offer a rich set of experiences that I think would add much to the discussions here. I hope you'll stick around awhile and let us know what you think.

Jan: First, please let me welcome you and tell you we appreciate your candor.

On the technical side - I am delighted to announce that a NEW (and hopefully, much improved) sign-in system was launched yesterday. The former one was a pain and a half. When it comes to articles, please use the "search" function on the upper bar of the home page. I'm amazed how many articles I find!

Second - the FORUM has been slow. It always is during the summer -- and since the New Orleans devastation, everyone appears to have been glued to the TV.

Third -- we are always delighted when there is lively repartee. Please initiate it and you'll find people will jump right in!

Being in Dallas and not in France is hard -- and you are in the process of being joined by many other refugees currently. They will be living hand-to-mouth and will have lost more than their homes in New Orleans.

I will certainly pass on your sentiments to Suzy. She is wonderful and spends time in TX. since that's where she was born and her father is aging.

..........We hope to see your frequent posts and any and all suggestions of what you'd like to read. Thank you for becoming a Bonjour Paris premium member.
The site is not subsidized, with the exception of a few dollars from affiliates and subscribers.


I hope that in a few weeks you'll say that BP is more than worth the cost and you can get a good French fix here! Rather, a good fix of France.

Jan,

If you go to the Paris section of the forums and look for books and authors you will find comments on the excellent "C'est la Vie." The author writes articles for the newsletter periodically that are as much fun as her books.

This time of the summer tends to be slow on the forums because many of our prime contributors are traveling in France. Wait until October!

Jan, welcome to Bonjour Paris. Despite my love for France (which is shared by all of us who contribute to the forum), I am a relative newcomer to BP. Over the past six months, my questions about various things French have been answered and I have both participated in and been a passive reader of many different conversations. In some cases I've even been able to offer advice. I don't know if you've navigated the forum site much yet, but if so, you've seen that the topics offer a variety of subjects about which to comment. With your extensive, first-hand knowledge of France, I hope that you'll stick with it and be an active participant. If you click on My Assistant in the upper right-hand corner, it will tell you how many posts have been made since you last signed on and what the active topics are for the day. For those like myself who can't be in France as much as we'd like, BP is the next best thing!

Bonsoiree Paris,

I just paid for a membership to your site, which was well hyped by an author that captured my soul from the first page of her book. To my disappointment there was no lively chatter amogst the members about this and that...that is what I expected.

Americans tend to be more outgoing when it comes to discussing what is happening in the world and the daily lives of the average person.

I find your site is not easy to navigate, it requests passwords in the middle of trying to read something or trying to respond to something.

I have things to say, I think that are interesting, that may help some one, but really there is not much to respond to. Now, unless I am severely mistaken and you can point my DA on the right track I shall remain disappointed. And 35 USD lighter.

I am Jan, English, living in Texas, with a passion for France that surpasses most others. 60 trips in 7 years, it also is the place I choose to stay, to belong to.

I did the same as an author did, but on a shoe string, after I closed my small buisness, 21 months ago. I worked a season in the Loire as a small Hotel and Gite manager in the Loire, the Belgian owner sold it to a director of Le Clerc for a single family dwelling.

I went to Dijon, I had a daughter there, she was in the middle of divorce and my tiny padding of 20.000 Euros was eaten in 1 year. Credit Agricole and I are not happy. Espeicially as I was living in a hotel in Paris, as well as paying bills for Martine, my daughter. Am I surprised, no, of course not. I thought that Paris would be my home, a small room somewhere, a job, hey, I would clean toilets for a small room. Ah!, the joys of being a member of the EU, but that caution to enable renting a flat in Dijon large enough for two stopped me from losing all to my daughter who returned to Dallas. Silly girl.

Anyway, pass on the message to your assoceate that wrote the book "C'est la Vie", please, I was seeing my times in france again through her trials. And tell me that my 35 USD were not wasted...that I will find the busy chatter of the duel citied people and their thoughts and ideas etc., here. I can not wait to be back in Paris, being captive in a room in Dallas is terrible....and my tiny EU pension has to cover flight and tiny room rent this trip, (the British are slower then the french when it comes to paying the pension)..I must stay, for to end ones years alone in a room in Dallas is not what this lady with the heart of 'une francaise', really wants to do.

Hope to see some lively repartee on your site.

Regards,
Jan

Karen, please give Mimi my sincerest sympathy over the loss of her dog. My heart is still broken after losing my dogs last fall. They were both my "other" children and it left a huge hole.

And on a happier note, thanks for helping make my Christmas giving easier this year!

Ellen:

Hope that you and others will think of BP premium subscriptions when it comes for gift giving.

http://www.bonjourparis.com/about/premium_benefits.php

Recipients will think of you each day and certainly EVERY week.


As for Mimi's dog, he died. It will take her a long time to get over the loss.
These animals become our children. To spite a few tears, the lunch was lovely.

Karen, that's a great idea. I have some friends and relatives who I know would love a subscription. Don't know why I hadn't thought of that before. A subscription would make a good birthday or holiday present.

By the way, how is Cigalchante's dog doing?

Thanks to all of you for the nice words ....

But we need more subscribers to make Bonjour Paris viable. What would it take for you to subscribe? To send someone a gift subscription?

St. Germain -- I met Cigalchante and her husband yesterday! We ate figs from the trees in Provence.

Ditto Chuck. I do enjoy the articles!

In addition to Chuck and Mike's reasons, to meet Karen.