A Year in Villefranche sur Mer - Moving to France

  Day 2062 (Monday) 30 th January 2023. Today’s online photos… This is Nice in the winter This is La Darse in Villefranche sur Mer Huw went to Nice with Geno this morning to order the awnings for the big apartment and while he was out our landlord came to see the cracks in the wall. I’ve never met him and Huw has only met him once and he was a lovely man, all smiles and he wished me a happy new year and strangely enough I understood most of what he was saying, he’s going to the syndic because the cracks start in the flat upstairs. Apparently he still speaks Niçard   nissart / Niçart   niçois  French:  or  nizzardo  (Italian:  is the  dialect  that was historically spoken in the city of  Nice , in  France , and in all the area of the historical  County of Nice . The affiliation of Niçard is debated: it is generally considered a  subdialect  of  Provençal , itself a dialect of  Occitan , while some scholars argue that the historical dialect spoken in Nice was more strictly  Ligurian . 

  Day 2061 (Sunday) 29 th January 2023. These are today’s photos found online This is Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat This is Beaulieu sur Mer This is Nice And this is Antibes The rowers were out practising for the battle of the flowers here in Villefranche on the 13 th February. It was a lovely sunny day again and there were a few people on the beach and a few people swimming in the sea – idiots! We decided to go up to the café on the Moyenne Corniche to enjoy the view and an Orangina but we went to the fort in Mount Alban first and the view was as spectacular as ever. We were very disappointed that the café was closed so we went to the café near Eze but that was closed as well. It was so incredibly cold on Kisbee up there, we were absolutely frozen by the time we got home. It was hard to believe it was 26 degrees on our balcony – it took us ages to thaw out.   The centre of town was very busy, which is always great to see. Here are some more quirky facts about Nice… The Most Important Attrac