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  Day 3288 (Tuesday) 9 th June 2026 This is the Cote d’Azur from the sky and this was taken from the exotic garden in Eze Village.   It was another lovely sunny day and we went into Nice for our weekly kebab lapping up the sun in the park. We actually chose to sit in the shade and there was nobody sitting on the benches in the sun. All winter we’ve been sitting in the sun but it was quite hot today and the kebab was lovely. Yesterday Huw spotted a number of buoys being hung on the citadel wall so we went to have a look on the way home and it was quite lovely, we have no idea what they are for, is it art? Huw looked it up when we got home but couldn’t find anything but they are very pleasant.    As promised yesterday here are some more weird French foods. They are getting worse and I’ll warn you when they get disgusting. 7. Rabbit (Lapin: lah-PAN) Some 80% of French eat rabbit, according to one survey, but that number is decreasing, mostly because rabbit meat is beco...
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  Day 3287 (Monday) 8 th June 2026 Both of these photos were taken in Villefranche-sur-Mer. Here are some more unusual French foods, these dishes are bit yucky but there are worse to come tomorrow. 4. Foie Gras (fwah-GRAH) This staple of  France food culture  is the one that is probably most controversial, banned in some parts of the world (and increasingly, in corners of France itself): geese are force-fed to fatten their livers (foie gras actually means fatty liver), a practice that involves cruelty to animals. Here we're only coming around to that kind of thinking but foie gras is such a popular food in France that eliminating it is almost unthinkable, at least for now. Foie gras is incredibly popular, one of our most special French foods, and 93% of us eat it several times a year. It has been around as long as geese and ducks have been domesticated, their fat providing human consumption all year round.  In the beginning, our ancestors in the Middle East acq...
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  Day 3286 (Sunday) 7 th June 2026 This is a Jacaranda tree in Nice and this is Menton.   It was another lovely sunny day and we went into town for lunch in Bobby’s. There were two cruise ships in the bay again today – so much for the mayor’s threats of banning them. We went to Le Phare first and met a couple of locals and had a beer before going to the square for lunch. I found this article about weird French food, which is quite interesting. The first few options are ok but as the article goes on the food gets really weird and I wouldn’t advise vegetarians to read some of them…enjoy. 24 Weird French Foods We still love in France Updated 03 August 2025 by  Leyla Alyanak  — Parisian by birth, Lyonnaise by adoption, historian by passion. There are many  stereotypes about the French , and quite a few centre around this question; "What do the French eat?" Weird French foods, that's what. And the things we eat are not always gourmet, either. You'd be surprised...
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