Day 3283 (Thursday) 4 th June 2026 This was the sky above Nice yesterday This is between Nice and Villefranche and this is the port La Darse in Villefranche. It was a bit cloudy today and there were two cruise ships in the bay. I thought the mayor had stopped two coming in at the same time. As promised here are the rest of the French expressions… Ça ne mange pas de pain “ It doesn’t eat bread “, an idiom to express that an action is easy to make. It comes from the 17 th century when bread had much bigger importance in French society since it represented the main expense for the food budget. Saying it meant that buying an object for example won’t be deduced from the bread budget meaning it costs nothing. Avoir du pain sur la planche “ Having bread on the board ” is used when a person has some work to, dating back to the time when convicts had to work in exchange for free food, in that case, bread. Il y a de l’eau dans le gaz “ There is water in the gas “...
