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  Day 3149 (Wednesday) 21 st January 2026 This is Cagnes-sur-Mer and this is Villa Reve d’Azur in Villefranche.   Huw very kindly took me into Nice again this morning to work with Pauline and the sunlight was beautiful today but it was super-cold on the scooter. Huw went to work on the villa. It was Pauline’s last day with me today, she is going to Dubai on Friday to work. She has 3 4-hour classes with me on Monday to Wednesday and 2 4-hours classes with another teacher on Thursday and Friday, surprisingly she is having a class this Friday from 9 to 1 and then leaves for Dubai at 6pm – madness. She brought us some breakfast this morning to say thank you for everything and we had Madeleines and Pain au chocolat . She is from Toulouse and so she calls them chocolatine and she told me the story of the different words, which I already knew but didn’t want to spoil her story. Pain au chocolat   (French:  [pɛ̃ o ʃɔkɔla]  , lit. 'chocolate bread'), also...
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  Day 3148 (Tuesday) 20 th January 2026 This is sunset in Antibes and this is Menton.   Pauline has changed times today and we are doing 1pm to 5pm so I had the morning off while Huw worked on the villa. Huw came home at lunchtime and kindly took me into Nice and dropped me off near Parc Mozart. We’d had a good run into Nice so I was able to sit in the sun in the park for 10 minutes before I started. It’s pretty cold but we’ve got our blue sky back again.   I was delighted to find that there’s a new book swap box in the park and I couldn’t resist and took out the Fog by James Herbert – I haven’t read it since I was a teenager. 20 amazing facts about France and the French language that you didn't know written by Manon. Today, let's discover again you 20 amazing new facts about France and the French language that you didn't know.   #1 - The anagram for "chien" is "niche.". They say a dog's (chien) home is a kennel (niche). But did you know that the ana...
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