I think you and Leonardo should enjoy a very nice bottle of red when this is all done and over.
Fraussie
November 23rd, 2012 at 10:37 am
It might be difficult with him in Australia and me in France! I’ll have to wait until he gets here …
Maple Leaf
November 23rd, 2012 at 1:04 pm
I think Leonardo owes you one đ Why is everything such a hassle? I had a similar parking issue the other day in Saint Germain-en-laye. I just had to pop over to someone’s house to pick up the design for the gingerbread houses someone “kindly” signed me up to make for the school’s holiday sale. I thought it would just take a few minutes but of course I couldn’t find a spot!! I ended up walking 15 minutes only to see that other people had just parked on the sidewalk. Obviously I’m not French enough yet!
It’s such a palaver! And you have to do it all in person, because posting it will just result in someone losing a vital document. It’s all so time wasting, and fragmented in such a way as to make it unintelligible to a non-native.
Fraussie
November 24th, 2012 at 11:01 am
I see you have had the same type of problem! I certainly wouldn’t have dared to post anything.
Oh dear…I think I’m going to have to lay down for a rest after reading about that huge effort !!!!!
Sadly familiar – not those exact circumstances of course, but the toing and froing and reams of mainly unnecessary paperwork that is constantly demanded when dealing with les cravattĂ©s. Hang in there!
Yes, I remember all your administrative problems when you first moved.
I think you and Leonardo should enjoy a very nice bottle of red when this is all done and over.
It might be difficult with him in Australia and me in France! I’ll have to wait until he gets here …
I think Leonardo owes you one đ Why is everything such a hassle? I had a similar parking issue the other day in Saint Germain-en-laye. I just had to pop over to someone’s house to pick up the design for the gingerbread houses someone “kindly” signed me up to make for the school’s holiday sale. I thought it would just take a few minutes but of course I couldn’t find a spot!! I ended up walking 15 minutes only to see that other people had just parked on the sidewalk. Obviously I’m not French enough yet!
It’s my birthday present! The hassle is one of the reasons why he decided to go to live in Australia! In Nogent, they give you parking tickets at the drop of a hat, so I couldn’t take the risk. In Saint Maur, there weren’t any sidewalks left to park on! I still have CrĂ©teil left but there is an enormous shopping complex just next to the court, so at least I won’t have that problem.
It’s such a palaver! And you have to do it all in person, because posting it will just result in someone losing a vital document. It’s all so time wasting, and fragmented in such a way as to make it unintelligible to a non-native.
I see you have had the same type of problem! I certainly wouldn’t have dared to post anything.
[…] Part 1 of the story of how I closed Leonardo’s one-man company ended with the drab tax office in Saint Maur so that leaves only two more places to go. First, the legal publications office, back in Paris, then the commercial court in CrĂ©teil, also in the eastern suburbs. It would have been more logical to start with the LPO, but I didnât know that when I began. Of course. […]