Shipping Services

• DHL France

• FEDEX France

• UPS France

Shopping

• Major stores of all kinds [all stores may not be in all Regions]

  • BHV (Bazar de l’Hotel de Ville) Hardware/Home Improvement

  • Bricolage France (like Home Depot & Lowe’s) home improvement

  • Carrefour super and hypermarché  stores (similar to our Target & Walmart super stores, but more) is the largest retailer in Europe  and consists of the following stores:  Carrefour, Champion, Contact GB, Dia, Di per di, Docks Market, Ed, 8 à Huit,   GS, Promocash, Prodirest, Proxi, Shopi  Marche M Plus, Norte, Ooshop, Puntocash

  • Castorama (like our Home Depot & Lowe’s) home improvement

  • Darty for major appliances, computer & software, cameras, telephones,  televisions

  • FNAC search, click on Region, town and category choice. Fnac has stores all over France

  • France Loisirs for cds, dvds, music and more

  • Galeries Lafayette Department Store (the capital of fashion)

  • Habitat inexpensive furniture and furnishings for your home

  • IKEA reasonably priced furniture & other home furnishings

  • Laserland dvd equipment

  • Le Bon Marche Department Store

  • Le Printemps the trendy place Department Store

  • Monoprix department & grocery store chain that includes: BHV, Galeries Lafayette, Inno, Nouvelle Galeries & Prisunic

  • Sport 2000  France (brand names for sports)

  • Twinner / Groupe S.E.D mountain & skiing specialists

  • Virgin on line catalog of the cds,dvds, music & more megastores

Spas/Thermales

Sports Activities/Sporting Events

• Official government site for Youth Sports

• Sports Events in 2003

Telephone Usage and Information

• Telephone Codes for France

  • ACR's Calling Code Directory For France

• Telephone Usage

  • Useful information for using the telephones in Paris and France. This site has other useful information regarding phone related services.

  • U.S. site on French postal and telephone information

• White and Yellow Pages France

  • White Pages France [English, French]

  • Yellow Pages France [English, French]

Time Internationally [City to city] click the X in the middle of the two city drop down boxes to get the times.

• The International Clock from La Poste

Tours/Travel Agencies/Sight Seeing & Related Information

• Sight Seeing

• Tours

• Travel Agencies

• Travel Insurance

  • International Travel Insurance

Transportation Services & Facilities

• Auto Rentals

  • Official French Auto Rental Sites

• Bus

  • Bus companies and auto rentals

  • Busing around Europe

• Train Information & Schedules

  • A train station is called a Gare, select your train information from the following:  SNCF gare locator,  SNCF Paris,  the TGV (fast trains), the RER [regional trains], and the Eurostar

  • France Rail Passes

  • Eurail Pass, Euro Ticket and Europass

  • Regional Train Schedules

• Transportation Information

  • Link to Transportation Sources and More Information

Useful Information [Credit Card/Phone/Postal/Travel,Etc]

• General

  • A - Z practical information

  • Credit card information for France

  • Information on the Euro currency

  • Link to more useful information

  • Official French postal site

  • Useful Tips for Traveling in France

  • Useful and practical information links for traveling in France

  • Useful Information for the Traveler in France

  • Worldwide currency converter site

• White and Yellow Pages France

  • White Pages France

  • Yellow Pages France

• Your Rights in France

  • Your RIGHTS in France

Weather

• France Regional Weather Info

• Weather Information  by City or Town [click on links]  

What to Wear

• Complete how to pack light for your trip, with practical advice to boot!

Words/Phrases

• French/English Cooking Basics and Words/Phrases

• French/English French Words and Phrase Link Words/Phrases

• French/English Days, Months &  Time Words/Phrases

• French/English Food Store Words/Phrases [there's 3 pages]

• French/English Restaurant Words/Phrases

• French/English Vegetable Words/Phrases

• Link to more culinary words & phrases in the gourmet section

Youth/Students

• Student Information

  • Link to Schools and Universities

  • The Student in France

• Youth & Family Activities

  • Summer camps and family holidays in France

• Youth Hostels

  • FUAJ hostels click on map of France by Department

  • GAF hostels with click on map of the Regions

• Youth Organizations

  • Scouts of France with links to scouting sites and the national organization.

Zip Code Directory for the Region of Lorraine

• The Region Denotes the Zip Information

  • Postal Codes in France, enter the town name in the 'Commune' box and hit rechercher. Example:  If the town is Aix-en-Provence, just enter Aix, it will bring up all the towns with Aix in them.  The same with Saint, or Ville [there's 587 Ville....something]

  • From Uniserve Just fill in town and hit submit for zip info

  • Infobel's zip code person/request form

  • Business/Company search L'Annuaire de la Poste

• La Poste's French/English Postal Dictionary

  • La Poste English/French or French/English postal information dictionary