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Day 3358 (Tuesday) 18 th August 2026  This is Menton and this is La Roya, North of Nice.   It was very hot and humid again today and we decided to go and see the crypt in Nice thinking it would be cool in there, but first we had our weekly kebab in the park. There were some fully grown young men playing on the seesaw, it was very entertaining. This is the entrance to the crypt. Digs of the Metropolis’ tram line shone exceptional light on to Nice’s history, the Duchy of Savoy’s fortified stronghold for close to five centuries. The excavation of the Porte Pairolière entrance to the city along the river Paillon is particularly large-scale as it covers approximately 2,000 m 2 . It was located at a critical point for the tram, close to the Place Garibaldi square. This dig had to adapt to the constraints of civil engineering. THE FORTIFICATION OF THE PORTE PAIROLIERE The Porte Pairolière was first mentioned in 1323 as the ‘Porte des Augustins’. It was the city...
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  Day 3357 (Monday) 17 th August 2026  This is the airport in Nice . and this is Villefranche and Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat. It was slightly cooler today, not much, but a little and Huw had few jobs to do so we stayed at home ready for tomorrow’s adventure when hopefully we’ll go to the crypt in Nice. There was yet another cruise ship in the bay today and it was huge. As usual on a Monday here’s What’s happening in France this week. The Local France. Astronaut Sophie Adenot. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) A French astronaut makes history, the President and Prime Minister visit wildfire-hit areas of France, school aid payments arrive, and the domestic football season kicks off - here's what is happening in France this week. Monday Cool down –  Storms over the weekend brought the official end of the fifth heatwave of France’s gruelling summer. We are now due a period of – relative – cool.  Wildfires –  France’s Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu will head a delegation of ...
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  Day 3356 (Sunday) 16 th August 2026  This is Villefranche and this is Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.   It was very hot and humid again today, we still don’t see any evidence of the canicule (heatwave) ending. We went down to the square for lunch in Bobby’s and surprisingly town wasn’t very busy considering it’s high season. There were loads of boats in the bay and the tourist boat was full. Here are the rest of the French expressions from the day before yesterday … Madame v. Mademoiselle Technically, the difference between these two terms is age, but this is also a situation where language has evolved and changed in recent years. The basic difference is presumed age -  madame  would be for a woman, while  mademoiselle  would be for a girl or a young woman (teens and early 20s, usually). Historically the title of  madame  was only given to married women, while  mademoiselle  was given to young girls or single women, but the titles have no...
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