Email and The Internet
Email is the cheapest and most hassle-free way of staying in touch with home while in France. Practically every reasonable-sized town has a cyber cafe or connection point of some sort, and in less populated areas, the need is being filled by post offices, many of which now have rather expensive public Internet terminals, which are operated with a prepaid card (50F/?7.63 for the first hour). In addition France Telecom has street-side Internet kiosks in major cities. Prices range from 15F/?2.29 to 60F/?9.15 per hour, so it can be worth shopping around. It's easy to open a free email account to use while you're away with Hotmail or Yahoo: head for www.hotmail.com or www.yahoo.com to find out how. The existence of Minitel and the relatively low level of personal computer ownership in France contributed to the rather slow adoption of the Internet here, but in recent years the situation has changed and France as a nation has come fully on-line. Information about practically every aspect of French culture and travel can now be picked up on the Internet: government agencies are now on-line, including even some of the smallest local tourist offices; in the cultural sphere even the most obscure and esoteric associations have discovered the importance of getting their message out over the Web; and the hotel and restaurant businesses have come to realize that the Net is a key to foreign markets. On the down side, many or most of these pages do not have English-language versions, although they are gradually coming to be seen as indispensible in all but the most locally focused sites. As anywhere on the Net, persistent combing of links pages and use of search engines (among the best are www.google.com and www.dogpile.com , and the French www.enfin.com ) will almost certainly get you the information you are looking for.
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