A Year in Villefranche sur Mer - Moving to France

  Day 1667 (Friday) 31 st December 2021 It was lovely first thing this morning and the sunrise was great, especially the crescent moon and plane trails. These were taken at 7am by 9am it had clouded over. We had planned to go to Monaco to see the Christmas market but it got pretty cold so we decided to have a day pottering around the flat and then go to Le Phare this evening. Huw did some shopping in Super U and I did some chores. After lunch Huw decided to tackle the new issue with our fridge. For some strange reason our fridge/freezer has been very wobbly; we have no idea how this happened but it needed to be dealt with. We have a 6ft high narrow cupboard next to the fridge and only the front is exposed. We had to slide that out first and you can imagine the three other sides were quite grubby.  With us both in there the kitchen felt even smaller than usual When I checked my bank account today I got a wonderful surprise – I had been paid a good whack by Ipag. Do you remember there

  Day 1665 (Wednesday) 29 th December 2021 I had a message from Florence in Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat last night telling me not to go for our class on Wednesday because she has Covid and so do her two daughters Oceane and Claree – poor buggers – I think they have to self-isolate for 17 days. Huw went up to the apartment this morning to finish it off and I did some housework in our place and the sun was shining once more. After lunch we got on Kisbee, dropped some stuff off at the apartment and headed to Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat. Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat Arid and rocky land, the hamlet of Saint-Jean was once home to fishermen and farmers families clustered around the church and harbour area. The Compaigne Generale des Eaux (water company) created an artificial lake on Cap-Ferrat which developed a dense and varied vegetation on the peninsula. The wealthy families from Nice began to frequent the peninsula for their outings and from the end of the 19 th century, crowded heads and foreign aristocra