Les Deux Alpes Life

From a barn restoration in Bordeaux, to a mazot conversion in the mountains there's many reasons why people are interested in purchasing property in France. Make sure that before you attempt the process of purchasing your property in France you are fully armed with the knowledge of how to locate, purchase and even live in it! ... see "Buying & Selling Property" for more

Living and working in the mountains doesn’t need to be a pipedream. Whether you are looking to fill a gap year by doing a ski season, or if your ambitions lie more for the long term, there are a whole host of options for you to consider. In this section, you can find information on the types of job available, what types of courses and qualifications may help you land the job of your choice, and how and when to apply. You can also use our job finder service to help you land that perfect job.

Taking your car with you on holiday gives you absolute freedom to go where you want, when you want, and you are likely to find the French roads refreshingly empty when compared to the UK. However, it’s not just as simple as loading up, filling up and hopping on the first ferry to the continent. Whilst road tripping is undoubtedly one of the best ways to see a country (well in our opinion anyway), in order to ensure that the journey itself is as stress free as possible, a bit of forward planning and preparation before you leave is essential. Ensuring your car is up to the trip, planning your route in advance, and familiarising yourself with the road rules and regulations of the country you are visiting, will all help ensure that the drive itself is as much a part of your holiday as your final destination. In the article below, we’ve put together some key points for you to consider before hitting the open road on the continent. ... see "Driving in France" for more

So you want to ski all season in the Alps but you’ve got a house in England, perhaps a family at school there too, commitments, bills to pay, letters to answer etc etc. You don’t understand ‘the French System’, French bank accounts, the French school system, Insurance and a million other daunting things. Most of all you don’t know where to go to find out about all those things that you don’t know.

As Donald Rumsfeld, the American Secretary of Defence once famously said about the Unknown… “As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know we don't know.” (Feb. 12, 2002, US Department of Defence news briefing)

Well, Alan, our Courchnet Snow Reporter, will help you find the answer to all of those ‘known unknowns’ and hopefully a lot of the ‘unknown unknowns’ too on the subject of ‘How to spend the winter season in the Alps and get away with it’.