When you’re relying upon work being done on your property, the best professionals come by recommendation. The useful people listed below are all people we have used and would recommend.
An English-speaking insurance agent for car, health and home insurance.
They are all extremely helpful and we would thoroughly recommend them.
Address: 1 rue Louis Blériot, 53500 Ernée
Telephone: 02 43 05 21 82
Email: 4005417@agents.allianz.fr
Website: www.france-insurance.co.uk
Valérie speaks excellent English and is an absolute treasure trove of information, from taxes to help with translations and help with purchases. Very reasonable rates too.
Address: Valérie ROGER Le Pissot 53100 Châtillon-sur-Colmont France
Telephone: 33 (0) 971 429 051 (In France) 09 71 42 90 51
Mobile: 33 (0) 667 536 447 (In France) 06 67 53 64 47
Email: valerie@sosanglo.com
Website: www.sosanglo.com
Elliotts is a small, family run boucherie, popular with the English and French alike. The quality is second to none and their sausages are to die for.
Address: 8 Place de la Houssaye 53100 Gorron
Telephone: 02 43 30 46 89
Email: elliottsboucherie@gmail.com
Website: www.elliottsboucherie.com
pat’auto is a French auto mechanic who speaks absolutely no English, but does fantastic work. We have had work done by him and would thoroughly recommend him and his work. Our car feels like new.
Address: Les ArbresVerts 50640 Savigny le Vieux
Telephone: 06 87 42 90 30
Centre Motoculture Teilleulais is just on the left after the roundabout from Passais. Their machinery is for everyone from domestic to industrial-strength and comes at a range of prices. Their technicians are really good and their service is top-notch. Julien speaks good English, but is not always on-hand, so you will probably need to be able to speak French here.
Address: 12 Parc de la Pommeraie 50640 Le Teilleul
Telephone: 02 33 49 29 01
Mobile: 06 65 21 31 65
Tina’s Brocante is an English run depot vent that is an absolute treasure-trove of odds and sods. Go see for yourselves!
Address: Les Landes 61350 Mantilly
Telephone: 02 33 30 83 64
Email: tina.cross@live.fr
A one-stop shop for everything to do with garden machinery.
We have used these people for everything from small pieces of tubing and mower blades, to full-blown servicing on our mower
They’re courteous, quick and reasonably priced. Thoroughly recommended
Address: 28 Rue de Normandie 53120 Gorron
Telephone: 02 43 08 63 85
Email: Send them a message from their website
Website: www.poirier-letemplier-gorron.fr
This Chinese restaurant is a real revelation. Easy to get to and they’re open every day except Monday.
The food is excellent, the price is unbeatable and the service is brilliant
Thoroughly recommended
Address: 2 Rue Réaumur 53100 MAYENNE
Telephone: 02 43 08 96 87
Eric Meunier is a plumber, heating engineer and creator of bathrooms. We can thoroughly recommend him for courteous and prompt service
Address: 61700 Domfront
Telephone: 02 33 37 80 58
Mobile: 06 13 27 19 53
For roofing, give this man a ring. He provides excellent work at really reasonable prices
Address: La Corbiniére 61700 La Haute Chapelle
Telephone: 09 88 66 95 07
Mobile: 06 31 22 87 33
This man also does chimney sweeping and we have to say, he does an absolutely excellent job. His price is more than reasonable for the work he does. Thoroughly recommended!
Address: EURL Bruno Tesnière 56 rue de Bretagne 53120 Gorron
Telephone: 02 43 08 61 28
Email: tesniere.bruno@wanadoo.fr