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  Day 3270 (Friday) 22 nd May 2026 This is the Old Port in Nice and this is Eze Village.   We had an incident with a pigeon this morning, he came into the flat and we had to shut all the doors to prevent Badger getting it. He came into the blue room and the bedroom and it took Huw quite a while to get rid of it, it was quite a palaver. There was a smaller than usual cruise ship in the bay this morning and the passengers were mostly British and town was quite busy with all the tourists. The weather is getting better and better every day and today it was pretty hot. We went to Bobbie’s for lunch which was really nice. 15 French words that are originally Arabic A café might be the epitome of Frenchness, but the word itself comes from Arabic. Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP If you're speaking French on a daily basis, chances are that you are actually using several Arabic words - probably without even knowing it. French is strongly influenced by Arabic. Only Italian and English have ...
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  Day 3269 (Thursday) 21 st May 2026 This is La Roya, north of Nice en route to Merveilles, a beautiful little spot. and this is Monaco.  Huw had to work with Ken this morning and when he came home we went into Nice for our weekly kebab. Our usual park was closed for some football event tomorrow so we had to sit in the kids’ playground, which was packed with noisy kids, not as peaceful as usual. Are these France’s weirdest festivals? From giant sculptures made from lemons to pig squealing competitions, there are plenty of bizarre festivals in France. These are the 13 most unusual ones we could find… La Pourcailhade Trie Sur Baïse, Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie When it comes to unusual events, this annual porcine celebration in south-west France comes top off the list. Held in what was once the country’s main pig-rearing region on the second Sunday in August, the festival features everything from stalls selling sausages to piglet races where visitors can bet on which creature the...