A Year in Villefranche sur Mer - Moving to France

  Day 2708 (Wednesday) 6 th November 2024 This is Castel beach in Nice and this is Saint Paul de Vence.  Working in France: The French job vocab you need to know A France Travail employee works on a computer at one of France's national employment agencies France Travail in Dammarie les Lys, northern France, on April 23, 2024. (Photo by Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT / AFP) French working life comes with a whole glossary of work terms (and acronyms) that you never learned at language school. Here's what you need to know. Here is the journey through work life  - from unemployment, to finding a job, enjoying the perks, then losing your job.  Emploi Well, we may as well start easy. Emploi, as you may have guessed, means "employment". French newspapers will often have their own "Emploi" sections if you want to read up on the latest employment news. Pôle emploi (now 'France Travail') With employment comes unemployment, which typically leads people to France'

  Day 2707 (Tuesday) 5 th November 2024 The house on the left used to belong to Sean Connery and is between Villefranche and Nice and his wife still lives in Villefranche up near the apartment we used to look after.   A James Bond-guided Tour Through the French Riviera Any fan of the iconic secret agent 007 will enjoy my guide through the famous and not-so-famous places along the French Riviera we’ve seen in the famous James Bond movies. You can stay in  Villa Hippocampo  in Villefranche-sur-Mer and have a mainly self-guided tour through all the places along the French coast featured in many 007 movies. First on my list is, of course, Villefranche-sur-Mer. In Never Say Never Again, shot in 1983, James Bond (played by Sean Connery) drives a motorbike through the narrow streets of the town. Also, the Villefranche Bay is the mooring place for Largo’s luxury yacht, the Flying Saucer. You can see the Villefranche-sur-Mer harbour as Domino (played by Kim Basinger) gets off the boat at the s

  Day 2706 (Monday) 4 th November 2024 This is Antibes and this is Nice Old Town.   Huw went to Nice first thing this morning and when he came home we went to Antibes because we need some sausages, we got there in about 50 minutes. This is Port Vauban. There was a lot evidence of the storm last week with driftwood all over the beaches – it’s so hard to believe we missed the whole thing. I assume these structures are art. There were a few people swimming in the sea. We went to look at Picasso’s Museum and I found this article when we got home. On 27 December 1966, Grimaldi Castle was turned into the « Picasso Museum ». The building was extensively renovated between 2006 and 2008. Built on what had been the ancient Greek Acropolis of Antipolis, and then a Roman castrum and a Medieval bishopric, it was owned until 1608 by the Grimaldi family, giving the Castle its name. In 1925 it was acquired by the City of Antibes. In 1946, Picasso, who was living nearby in Golfe-Juan with Françoise Gi