Day 3315 (Monday) 6 th July 2026 These clouds appeared yesterday afternoon and Huw found these photos online – pretty spectacular. He also found these photos taken on Sunday; this is the brass band playing on the boat. This is the vicar leading the parade down to the sea. After a lovely weekend we had to face French admin and go and collect our new Cartes de Sejour, which is the card that gives us residency for 10 years. Huw has spent weeks doing the legwork and they were ready to be picked up. The admin office is down by the airport and when Huw checked the route online he saw that there had been a number of crashes in the area and decided we should go by train and tram. The doors were to open at 1pm so we got there early at around 12.15 and joined the queue. It was very hot and no seats so we had to stand in line and wait. As we got closer a plastic chair appeared and I was very happy to sit down. Once we got inside there was yet another queue but at least we had ...
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Day 3314 (Sunday) 5 th July 2026 This is Saint Tropez and this is Petite Afrique in Beaulieu. Yesterday afternoon we went into town to see the jeeps, the pin-up girls and to listen to some music – the atmosphere was quite electric. Villefranche put all the American flags up to celebrate 250 years of Independence Day. The stage was ready for the music later on and then the line dancing started and at the end the ladies asked the crowd to join them and they were pretty good. Today is the festival of Saint-Pierre and this is what happens in Villefranche-sur-Mer. This was the vicar and the brass band going out in a boat to throw a wreath into the sea, and they play La Marseillaise on the way back, read on to find out why. About Saint-Pierre The Festin de la Saint-Pierre is a traditional maritime festival celebrated every year at the end of June in Villefranche-sur-Mer, in honour of Saint Peter, patron saint of fishermen. This ancestral celebration combines a religious ceremony, a se...