Archive for March, 2009
Expand your network of contacts!
With Normandy Networking, an event to be held on St George's Day, April 23rd, at a restaurant in Vire 14500. Your chance to meet possible new buyers, clients, business partners in an informal setting... plus if there is sufficient interest, this event may lead on 'France AngloBiz Normandy' - FAB Normandy.
Many of us working in Normandy can't fail to have noticed - especially in today's business climate - the extra effort we have to make to find clients and reliable business services or partners. The usual 'word of mouth' approach isn't quite as effective here, and there is no real equivalent to the Business Link groups we know from the UK. The Chambres de Commerce and the Chambres de Métiers, and the MSA all provide official advice - but they fail to understand fully or appreciate adequately the Anglophone culture.
Theme of the evening is a 2 course meal, the chance to chat with others over a glass of wine, and the opportunity to hand out your business cards, flyers, whatever... Cost will be around 15 euros per head.
This 'Normandy Networking' evening will take place at a restaurant in Vire, 7pm 23rd April (as it is fairly central - subsequent meetings could be held across the region).
This will be ticket only event, so please advise, BY 14 APRIL, if you are interested in coming along. Click here to contact the organisers.
Tickets will cost 15 euros per head to include a 2 course meal and wine.
UPDATE:
It was good to see so many people and put faces to names! It was definitely well worth going, and I would like to thank Judie for organising the event. A few of the businesses represented included:
The Connexion Magazine
Angloinfo
Mobsbys Brewery
Lingua Skills
Maison Preparation
Siddals
In all, there were about thirty different businesses represented.
For more information see their website:
Welcome to our new series on sculpture in Normandy.
For our first piece I have featured a sculpture set in the gardens in Avranches in Lower Normandy.
This sculpture below is titled lady of the wind and is created in red wood, made from the wood from the giant redwood trees that were blown down in the hurricanes that swept through this region on December 26th 1999. In the first photo on the left you can see the one remaining redwood tree dominating the background of the photo. The tree stands at the entrance to the gardens in Avranches and you can visit the gardens all year round free of charge. You will the gardens at the top of the town close to the cathedral there is also plenty of parking close by!
If you have any photos of interesting sculpture in your town or village and would like to feature it here on Normandy Magazine then please feel free to email your pictures together with a brief bit of info and I will add it to the magazine pages.
