A Year in Villefranche sur Mer - Moving to France

  Day 1940 (Friday) 30 th September 2022 Nicole rang me again this morning to say that I’m not starting in the Maybourne until the 18 th October.  This beautiful yacht was in the bay this morning and it is called the Sir Robert Baden Powell   The Sir Robert At your command for over 20 years Holiday in paradise under the clear blue sky. Whether you want to relax, chat, meditate or dine: on board Sir Robert everyone will find their favourite place to be. A spacious sun deck on the deckhouse or the jib net invites you to relax and sunbathe. Popular meeting place for cocktail, lunch and chat sessions are the pretty aft deck under shady sun sails and the middle deck. The Sir Robert rooms below deck are also spacious and comfortable. The salon is the hub of social gatherings and the dining room where our chefs serve an international breakfast and delicious lunch every day. The most important on-board facts and dimensions 42 metres length (overall), 6.50 metres width, 3 metres draught Class

  Day 1939 (Thursday) 29 th September 2022 It was another lovely morning and Huw went up to the house he looks after to cut the bougainvillea and he did some shopping. Nicole from Langazur in Cannes rang me today saying that the job in the Maybourne hotel will start on Tuesday and then from the 18 th October I will be going there three times a week. To get there I will have to catch the train to Carnoles (not far from Menton) and then get a shuttle bus up to the hotel which takes 20 minutes. The Jewel of the French Riviera The word is out. The sleepy village of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, once a secret rendezvous for the avant-garde, is the South of France’s latest star. It’s taken a while. Nearly a century ago, Irish designer Eileen Gray parked her roadster beside the little  train  station here and set out to explore a footpath above the shimmering  Mediterranean . A major figure of the Parisian Art Deco scene, she chose a plot of land amid this rocky terrain to build her visionary home-

  Day 1938 (Wednesday) 28 th September 2022 Huw had to do the pool today and another hour or so with Gino but he was home in time to take me to the toy shop in Nice.  I had a good laugh with Florence but she wasn’t very busy – Nice was quite empty of tourists today – thank god. Gizmo (her dog) was all over me licking my face and hanging around me. The wind really picked up and it wasn’t very nice on Kisbee on the way to Oceane in Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat where Havana, Oceane’s dog, licked my face for an hour! The 13 French words that English-speakers just can’t stop using One of the consequences of learning a foreign language is that some words end up integrating themselves into your everyday English, and after a while you end up speaking a weird mixture of French and English. Here are some of the most common French additions. Kiffe The verb is  kiffer , and it is French slang for ‘to like’ or ‘to enjoy,’ but you can also say that you did something ‘just for the fun of it’ or ‘just for t