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  Day 3435 (Wednesday) 4th November 2026. This is the Chèvre d’Or in Eze Village and this is Villefranche-sur-Mer. We have yet another cheese story today - enjoy. 10 Favourite French Cheeses by Jennifer Greco Cheese is recognised throughout the world as one of France’s most prized contributions to gastronomy, and tasting exceptional French cheeses is usually high on the list for visitors. France produces somewhere between 1,400 to 1,600 cheeses (according to the French dairy farmers), so shopping at a fromagerie or a market means being faced with shelves and cases of all shapes and sizes of cheese. You will likely spot a few familiar names such as Swiss Gruyère, Brie de Meaux, and Roquefort, but it can be an intimidating experience. For the last fourteen years I’ve been on a project to taste every cheese produced in France and am hovering around the 400 mark. I’ve scoured the fromageries, and the covered and outdoor markets in rural Normandy, the south of France, and in cities suc...
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  Day 3434 (Tuesday) 3rd November 2026. This is Saint Paul de Vence and this is a small town north of Nice. French Pharmacies Pharmacies. In the UK, you will get a pharmacy in the bigger towns or in shopping centres. In France it feels like every village has a pharmacy. I think that it may be entirely possible that France has the world’s highest concentration of pharmacies per square mile. We don’t have any shops at all in my village but the nearest village with shops is a few miles away and has one small supermarket, one restaurant, one bar, two florists – opposite each other, and a pharmacy. There is always a little old lady sitting on a chair in the pharmacy waiting for her pills and listening to everything you say when you speak to the pharmacist – and then sharing the juicy details with everyone she knows. French Florists And I mentioned two florists in a village of a few hundred people – well alongside having the world’s highest concentration of pharmacies, I think it’s possi...
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