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We are a retired American couple living in France, enjoying the good life with our cats. Our house is in a small hamlet among the Ste. Foy vines. We also have a sailboat that the male half of the spousal unit sailed across the Atlantic in the summer of 08. When the weather warms we will start to visit the sailing ports of Europe. Our stories chronicle our life in France: the good life, the hard life, and the sailing life.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Celebrate I'm Legal


After 21 1/2 months I finally received my Carte de Sejour yesterday. A tortureous process in which my application to become a resident in France was lost, they separated me from RXC (actually they made him single), trips to the prefecture in Bordeaux, trips to the local Mairie, a medical exam again in Bordeaux, and 300 euros later I am entitiled to stay in France until Feb. 5, 2010 when it needs to be renewed. Ah France.

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