Day 3390 (Sunday) 20th September 2026 This is Villefranche and this is David Niven’s house in Beaulieu. Dee and Suzanne invited us for lunch in a restaurant called Lou Bantry on the seafront and it was very good. There was a big cruise ship in the bay again and there were a lot of fat tourists in town. Here are the rest of the top facts about France… France was the first country to implement a public transit system, starting in the 1660s. Blaise Pascal, a mathematician credited for creating Pascal’s Triangle and an early calculator, created a system of horse-drawn carriages that would circulate on a fixed route and time through certain neighbourhoods in Paris. Nowadays, Paris has the densest metro system in the world; within 90km squared sit 245 metro stations on 14 lines. Due to its territories around the world, France technically sits in 12 time zones. Before World War II, France was actually in the same time zone as London (GMT). But after German occupation, French time...
