A Year in Villefranche sur Mer - Moving to France

Day 935 (Tuesday) 31 st December 2019 Happy New Year’s Eve Last night just before we sat down for dinner a pompier (fireman) rang our doorbell and we bought a calendar from him for 5€ so we are confident that if we need them next year they will come. We haven’t had the postman’s calendar yet so fingers crossed we’ll still get our mail. It was yet another wonderful sunny day today and I admired my flowers over coffee on the balcony. After lunch we went up to the big red apartment to do the final touches ready for the new guests and thankfully Huw managed to fix the two main doors – god knows what’s been going on there since Christmas Eve – either someone has tried to break in or if a friend of the family has messed up the doors but the looks have to be replaced before the next guests. On the way up on Kisbee we stopped to take a photo of the many people sunbathing on our beach. The new guests arrived bang on time (that’s a first) and they were Fr...

Day 934 (Monday) 30 th December 2019 It was yet another gloriously sunny day today and I was amazed to see someone swimming in the port. After brunch on the balcony we took Kisbee to Beaulieu to catch the little number 84 bus up the mountain.   The bus is very small because they can’t get a bigger bus up the mountain because of all the hairpin bends. The trip to Plateau Saint Michel took about 20 minutes and the views were spectacular. I was really pleased to see two Villefranche red chairs up there Huw had printed a map of the path going down the mountain and we soon found it near the rather lovely park. It was a lovely walk downhill but it wasn’t easy The beach at Petite Afrique looked wonderful from up here And the port of Beaulieu looked huge from up here There was the strangest garden and I’m not sure if these weird decorations are for Christmas or all year round – it was seriously tacky. ...