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  Day 2722 (Wednesday) 20 th November 2024 This is Villefranche and was taken in the 1950s, you can see the American sailors on the quay.  and this is Ventimiglia market, which reopened this week after the fire.    6 language mistakes that even French people make (including Macron) Gift or sarcastic comment? Members of the Academie Francaise present Emmanuel Macron with a dictionary. Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP It might make struggling French learners to feel better to know that even native speakers sometimes have difficulty with the language - yes, including the actual president of France,  Emmanuel Macron. Learning French is not always easy and it's common to make mistakes, sometimes very embarrassing ones. So it might make learners feel better to know that French people too struggle with the language, whether it's the gender of nouns, conjugating verbs correctly or remembering where those pesky accents go. Here are some of the most common language mistakes that Fren
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  Day 2721 (Tuesday) 19 th November 2024 This is somewhere near Monaco and this is Grasse. It was another lovely sunny day today and after doing some household chores Huw made excellent chicken and chips sandwiches and we went to Petit Afrique in Beaulieu to eat them. We practically had the beach to ourselves, other than three people sunbathing. When we got home I looked up Petit Afrique as I’ve often wondered where the name came from… How Little Africa in the Riviera Got its Name A Walk Through Little Africa in the Riviera By Michael February 25, 2014 EASY HIKING | FRANCE | FRENCH RIVIERA Where did the  Petit Afrique  area in Beaulieu-sur-Mer get its name from?  Actually, the area itself – located on the lower slopes of the Saint Michel mountain and stretching perhaps 1 km uphill behind Beaulieu beach – does not give away too much, so this was something I had to research after we had returned home from our walk. And frankly, it was a bit of a disappointment. I had optimistically expe
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  Day 2720 (Monday) 18 th November 2024 This is Eze Village and this is Cannes.   Pat put this photo on WhatsApp last night… Huw finished painting the bedroom this morning and it’s looking good and as always Badger helped him. Olivia came and cut my hair and I now have a fringe again, she said it took years off me. Pat called in to look at his logo on Huw’s computer and to go to a flat down the road. Pat is fixing up the flat and he wants Huw to show the gasman where the meter is so he can see if the supply is still connected. These are their views… As always on a Monday here’s What's happening in France this week Wine-growers bring barrels of Beaujolais Nouveau to the official launch of the 2023 edition of the "Beaujolais Nouveau" wine in the streets of Lyon, central-eastern France, on November 15, 2023. (Photo by OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE / AFP) From farmers' protests and rail strikes to Beaujolais Nouveau day plus the beginning of Christmas market season in France, here
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