A Year in Villefranche sur Mer - Moving to France

  Day 1636 (Monday) 30 th November 2021 It was another lovely sunny morning and Huw went up to the villa to do some gardening and I caught the train to Nice. The trains were horribly delayed but I managed to get to International House on time to see Jennifer. She was a bit late because of the traffic between here and Cannes so I had ten minutes in Parc Mozart, which is always lovely.   The time flew by with her as it always does and we were sad to realise that after today we only have three classes left but Romain has suggested that we go private, what a decent boss. She is going to phone the people who arrange these 30 hours of free training to see if she can get more but if they refuse we will go private – ‘black money’ as tax free work is called here – we love black money. I had no problem getting the train home and I was happy to see that they’ve finished painting Villefranche station. But the graffiti on the other building is still there There were a few people on the beach but h

Day 1635 (Monday) 29 th November 2021 It was a lovely day again but boy it gets cold when the sun goes down.  Huw went up to the villa to make sure that it’s all in shape and he’s going again tomorrow to do some gardening in the sunshine.  He took these beautiful photos Eduard sent me a  text last night after I went to bed asking me to send the materials to his daughter’s address and that Olga was too busy with the house so it was just one hour this morning. He has to pay for two because it was so last minute. For once he didn’t mention dependent prepositions and we looked at the vocabulary about the economy that I had found for him. Badger sat in the sun throughout the lesson.    I think he loves the sun as much as we do Look at the colour of that sky…marvellous I did yet more prep for this week and I also had to do my pay claims, when Huw came home he helped with the scanning and my tax. All three schools require a lot of paperwork and invoices and it’s very time consuming but needs