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  Day 3336 (Monday) 27 th July 2026  This is Antibes and this is Nice.  What’s happening in France this week French football legend and coach Zinedine Zidane. (Photo by Thibaud MORITZ / AFP) It’s going to get hot again, the summer sales end, and Zinedine Zidane will be introduced as the new manager of France’s senior men’s football team following the departure of Didier Deschamps after the World Cup. Tuesday Sales –  France’s extended summer sales period ends across most of the country, except for Corsica, where it started later and runs to August 4 th . Zidane –  The new manager of France’s senior men’s national side will be officially unveiled at a press conference. Wednesday Heatwave –  Forecasters have warned that France is set to endure a fourth heatwave, starting from July 29 th and lasting into early August. Friday Travel trouble  –  Roads watchdog Bison Futé has flagged every weekend of August as having ‘very difficult’ or ‘extremely dif...
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  Day 3335 (Sunday) 26 th July 2026 This is Menton and this is Paloma beach in Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat. There was yet another cruise ship in the bay and town was packed. After a hard day’s work at Ken’s house yesterday Huw didn’t want to go anywhere on the scooter today so we just went to town for lunch. We went to Le Phare and there was quite a good crowd there and we had a bit of a giggle with them. Pat and Dee invited us for lunch in Achilles and we happily joined them and invited Simon to join us. The boys all had the lamb pita, Dee had the tandoori brochette and I had ham and cheese croquetas, everything was good but Huw did say that the lamb was a bit tough today. As you can see it was quite cloudy today but the forecasted storms never arrived, we had about five spots of rain but it remained hot and humid.  On the way home we were pleased to see that there were people sitting in the square in Cosmo’s, it’s taken them a while to put up the parasols but now the people are c...
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  Day 3334 (Saturday) 25 th July 2026 This is Cap d’Ail  and this is Mandelieu-La Napoule. Here are the rest of the interesting facts about France… The Millau Viaduct is the tallest bridge in the world at 343 metres (1,125 ft) This breathtaking engineering feat stands taller than the Eiffel Tower and gracefully spans the Tarn Valley in southern France.  Construction used  some 290,000 tonnes of steel and concrete, and it is held up by 1,500 tonnes of steel cable. The hot air balloon was invented in France The Montgolfier brothers, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne, demonstrated the  world’s first public, untethered flight  in 1783. The first passengers in this historic flight were a sheep, a duck, and a rooster. The Michelin Guide originated in France in 1900 What does the tyre company have to do with the world’s elite restaurants? Well, it was  started by the Michelin brothers  to encourage early motorists to burn some rubber – fast forward to t...
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