A Year in Villefranche sur Mer - Moving to France

  Day 2428 (Wednesday) 31 st January 2024 This is a policeman in Nice – I have no idea why there are wine bottles at his feet! It was yet another sunny day and the paddle boarders were out. Huw finished painting the ceiling in the apartment yesterday and painted some walls today. He kindly came home to take me to Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat to work with Oceane. Back to some French, this article is quite long so I’ll post it over two days… 21 Weird French Words You Won’t Believe Exist. They say that Innuit have hundreds of words for snow. Other languages have words for concepts we’ve never even thought of. Linguists remain at odds as to whether the language we speak influences how we think or vice versa. However, you choose to look at it, though, some languages are just full of words that can seem strange to a non-native speaker, and French is no exception. Advanced learners  may be amused to learn some of these words, and anyone with an interest in French will see how some of these words ar

  Day 2427 (Tuesday) 30 th January 2024 This is Villefranche–sur–Mer and this is Mandelieu-La Napoule. It was another beautiful sunny day again today and Huw went up to the apartment to paint the ceiling in the big bedroom. There were a few idiots swimming in the sea and I went to the shop without wearing a jacket or socks – spring is in the air!   'No beer pong': 9 things to know before you go to a French party When I found this article I didn’t know what beer pong was so I looked it up… Beer pong, also known as Beirut, is a drinking game in which players throw a ping pong ball across a table with the intent of landing the ball in a cup of beer on the other end. The game typically consists of opposing teams of two or more players per side with 6 or 10 cups set up in a triangle formation on each side.   Alcohol used :  Beer Materials required :  Table, plastic cups ,  ping pong balls Other names :  Beirut, Six-Cup, 10-Cups Players :  Two teams of two players each Ski