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  Day 3408 (Thursday) 8th October 2026. This is Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat and this is Coco beach near the old port of Nice. Huw found this photo online this morning - this was the storm over Nice yesterday. All is well in the world again as the sun was shining and the Rade looked as good as usual. After lunch we went for a walk down to the beach and were chuffed to see that they are dismantling the private beach DeliBo - it’ll be gone soon.   On the way home we stopped for a coffee in one of the restaurants   along the seafront and the waiter’s English was very good. We overheard him saying that he’d lived in Croydon, how do you get from Croydon to Villefranche? Huw couldn't resist and asked him and he was pleased to announce that he had lived in Galway and then London and that he’d travelled to Wales. Here are the rest of the French Customs and Traditions by Andi Fisher. Thursday Carte du Jour Eating out is one of the major expenses of any trip – especially for a foodie like...
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  Day 3407 (Wednesday) 7th October 2026. This is Saint Paul de Vence and this is Beaulieu. It was grey and wet this morning and it stayed that way all day and we stayed at home. French Customs and Traditions: A Francophile’s Guide  by Andi Fisher French customs and traditions are the everyday rituals and unwritten rules that shape daily life in France, from greeting with la bise and gathering for l’apéro to the long, unhurried meal and the near-sacred August holiday. Some you will fall for instantly, and others will leave you politely baffled. Here is my personal collection, gathered over decades of loving France, marrying into it, and living there, along with the essentials you should know before you go. Culture is a tricky thing. You may fall in love with some of the surface aspects at first, but the more you keep digging, the more you realise what a bottomless pit of wonderment it can be. There are the obvious things, like food and holidays. And then, there are the things y...
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