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  Day 3418 (Sunday) 16th October 2026. This is Villefranche and Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat and this is the monastery Ile Saint Honorat, an island off Cannes. Huw found this horrible story the other day - I hadn't realised we had tsunamis in France The Nice Tsunami, 1979 Actually a rather nasty incident; when a landfill being used to build the Nice Airport collapsed, it triggered two large waves which delivered death and destruction to the French Riviera. The area around Nice in the South of France is the Mediterranean playground of celebrities, billionaires and European royalty, boasting miles of white-sand beaches, sparkling ocean and 300 days of sunshine a year. Yet, on October 16th, 1979 disaster struck this beautiful coastline. Six kilometres from the city centre, the international Nice Côte d’Azur Airport was being expanded into a two-runway, three-terminal airport that would cover 3.70 km2 (1.43 sq mi) using mostly reclaimed land. Plus, a new municipal port was being added. At 2pm...
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  Day 3416 (Friday) 16th October 2026. This is Antibes and this is Fort Alban between Villefranche and Nice. Here are the rest of the idioms… Level 2 Idioms: Moderately Bizarre 16.”Ne pas y aller avec le dos de la cuillère” Literally, it says: “Not to go there with the back of the spoon”. If you’re trying to figure out what this means, stop.   It’s a bit difficult to guess, but what it means is that there is no half-measures with a certain person. Like, he/she is an all or nothing type. 17.”Noyer le poisson”   Yet another animal-related idiom, but this means to evade an issue. But the literal meaning? “To drown the fish“. 18.“Parler à tort et à travers” It means to babble or to yammer but the direct translation states “to speak wrongly and crosswise“. Yeah. Crosswise talking. Whatever that is. 19.”Prendre entre quatre yeux” The exact meaning is “to take someone between four eyes” but the logical meaning is to have an argument with someone. 20.“Manger / sucer les pissenlit...
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  Day 3415 (Thursday) 15th October 2026. This is Eze Village and this is Cap d’Antibes I found this article about French idioms, it’s a quite long so I’ll post it over two days… FRENCH IDIOMS: Top 30 Funniest Expressions Ranked By Level of Absurdity by Frederic Bibard The French particularly have its own set of funny idioms that range in level of absurdity from mildly chuckle-worthy to off-the-charts weird. Chalk it up to the French people’s humour and clever play of words and brace yourself to learn them for future use, or simply for entertainment purposes. In this article, you’ll find 30 fun French idioms that range from the quirky to the downright ludicrous, arranged according to level of absurdity. Ready to read some French idioms? Level 1 Idioms: Mildly absurd “Tiré par les cheveux” When translated, this means “pulled by the hair”, but what it really means is that something is “far-fetched”. Kind of far-fetched, don’t you think? Not when you imagine someone pulling ideas out o...
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