A Year in Villefranche sur Mer - Moving to France

Day 1361 (Sunday) 28 th February 2021 What a great game of rugby we watched yesterday evening, we celebrated our win with a bottle of champagne given to us for Christmas by Olivier and Audrey. It was a gorgeous day and I spent a few hours sunbathing on the balcony reading my book wearing a summer dress. Huw went up to the apartment to make sure the guests had left it in good condition and they had. We lost the sun just after 2pm so we went for a walk taking our attestations with us to declare our one hour of exercise for today – I am soooooo very sick of this lockdown and curfew. It was very exciting to not wear a jacket or socks – I wore espadrilles for the first time this year. I found this short article a few weeks ago so we spent our hour of freedom taking photos to go with it. Visiting Villefranche-sur-Mer: what to do, what to see? Your Provencal getaway: how to visit Villefranche-sur-Mer and what to see and do in this beautiful town on the Cote d’Azur? A small town in the Alpes-

  Day 1360 (Saturday) 27 th February 2021 Shock horror it was cloudy all day but the one advantage of this was that it made lockdown easier. I went through all my teaching materials tidying them up, which was must needed and Huw sanded and painted one of the back shutters, which are in a real state but they are much better than the front ones.   After Despite the clouds there is a sign of spring being in the air with our flower boxes Your top 20 favourite French words Everyone's got their favourite French words, whether they're amusing, odd or just fun to pronounce. Here are 20 of the very best, according to The Local's readers. When it comes to describing a feeling, some French words capture it perfectly. Reader Chris Brown, for instance, explains that  'rassasier' , meaning 'to eat one's fill' or 'to satisfy one's appetite', seems the perfect way of describing how he feels in France. And there's probably no better place to feel  rasass

  Day 1359 (Friday) 26 th February 2021 Last night’s fog had gone from our bay at 7 o’clock this morning but when Huw went up to the villa he could still see it beyond Saint Jean Cap Ferrat Huw found these amazing photos in the Nice Matin and a very short explanation… Many of you sent us photos of this curtain of sea haze which covered part of the city of Nice after dark.  This type of sea mist, which is not dense enough to call it fog, forms "when a mass of warm air moves over a relatively cold surface," Météo France explained Thursday. Throughout the day yesterday, it had covered part of the Riviera coast, especially on the side of Menton and Monaco. This was taken at around 8pm last night and we couldn’t see the port At least there’s no sign on the Sahara sand yet. Last night at around 11pm I got a text from Eduard asking for a class today. I had moved Alicia forward because he had cancelled his class because he was in London so Alicia was due at 10am until 11.30 so I off