Chapters 

1. INTRODUCTION TO FRANCE
Climate, landscape, temperament, body language, assimilation and acceptance

2. MOVING TO FRANCE
Permits, removals, pets, health and retirement issues, and the journey

3. LANGUAGE
Getting by, before you move over, after you move over, reference books

4. DAILY LIFE IN FRANCE
Shopping, Internet, markets, buying at small shops, supermarkets and grandes surfaces, pharmacies, DIY shops, electrical goods, catalogue shopping, antiques and collectibles, plumbers and electricians, cleaners and domestic help

5. POST
Stamps, postboxes and letterboxes

6. UTILITIES
Electricity, wood and woodburners, water, sewage, rubbish collection, gas, coal, renewable energy, phones

7. INTERNET
Getting connected, buying online

8. MEDIA
What the French read, books, libraries, TV, radio, cinema

9. PETS AND LIVESTOCK
French attitude to pets, identification of animals, buying and selling pets, travelling, vets, pet food, abandoned and abused pets, dangerous dogs, rescue centres, livestock

10. GARDENS
Importing plants, buying plants, UK mail order, tools and equipment, part-time living

11. CAR TRAVEL
Car travel, rules and regulations, garages, buying a car, importing a vehicle, the driving licence, learning to drive, renting a car, parking

12. PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Trains, planes, underground, buses, Cross-Channel services

13. MONEY
Currency, vocabulary, cash economy, changing money, importing and exporting money

14. HEALTHCARE
The social security system, healthcare, emergency services, hospitals, doctors, prescriptions, pharmacies, complementary medicine, dentists, medical examinations, long-term illnesses, being in the system

15. TAX
Liability, pensioners, double taxation, income tax, tax returns, tax demands, self-employment and compliance, leaving France, other taxes

16. CIVIL MATTERS
French citizenship, marriage and divorce, dying in France

17. CHILDREN
Having a baby, registration, nationality, postnatal care, child benefit, childcare

18. EDUCATION
Differences of approach, state schooling, special-needs education, school availability, the curriculum, apprenticeship, lycee, the bac, Prepa, university, Grandes Ecoles

19. WORK
Finding work, before you go, job hunting online, places to look, self-employment, working from home, starting your own business

20. RETIREMENT
Rules and regulations, private UK-based pensions, state pension and company schemes in France, top-up pensions, private pensions in France, claiming your French state pension, living on a low income, what is retirement like in France?

APPENDICES
French public holidays
Useful resources