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  Day 3322 (Monday) 13 th July 2026 This is Eze Village and this is Menton. Tomorrow is Bastille Day and we’re going to Nice to celebrate it but the fireworks are tonight. France cancels Bastille Day fireworks as temperatures soar with 2 nd heat wave of the year Paris —  As France swelters through its second  heat wave  this year, towns and villages across the country have decided to cancel their traditional Bastille Day fireworks displays, afraid they could spark fires. At least 4,200 acres of forest had already been lost on Wednesday to wildfires that broke out just a day earlier in the southwest near Bordeaux. More than 6,000 residents and tourists had to flee homes, hotels and campsites in the region as the fires raged. One of the blazes destroyed around 450 acres of old pine trees near Europe's tallest sand dune, the Dune of Pilat. Firefighters attempt to control a forest fire spread on the communes of Landiras and Guillos, southwestern France, July 13, 2022. ...
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  Day 3321 (Sunday) 12 th July 2026 This is Menton and this is Antibes. It was another lovely sunny day and Dee sent me a message inviting us for lunch in a restaurant we’re not very keen on – it’s expensive and the portions are not big enough for Huw, so we declined but we arranged to meet them for a few beers before lunch. The bay was absolutely packed with private yachts. Town wasn’t very busy and Les Palmiers was very comfortable and we enjoyed a few beers with five expats. 13 French words that creep into your English Is it apéro o'clock yet? Paris metro station renaming, part of an April Fools joke. Photo by JACQUES DEMARTHON / AFP Certain French linguists use up a lot of angst on the many anglicisms that creep into modern French - but anglophones living in France may find more and more French words and phrases creeping into their conversational English. The English and French languages share a lot of words and have deeply entwined roots. In fact one French linguist has made ...
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