A Year in Villefranche sur Mer - Moving to France

  Day 2763 (Tuesday) 31 st December 2024 This is looking down on Eze Village and this is Menton.   These are our Christmas decorations on the top road. It was a little cloudy this morning but there’s still some heat in the sunshine and we went to Nice to have our last kebab of 2024, it was very cold on the scooter. This is our bench where we eat our shared kebab.  Happy New Year’s eve Who was Saint Sylvester and why does France celebrate him on New Year’s Eve? A 'saint Sylvester' celebration in Paris. Photo by JOEL ROBINE / AFP Been invited to a 'Saint Sylvester party' in France? Don't worry, you probably won't need to know anything about the 4 th century saint himself. France, in common with most of the rest of the world, has a celebration on the night of December 31 st to mark the end of the year and the beginning of the next year. It mostly involves Champagne, some nice food, dancing and perhaps some fireworks, depending on where you are. December 31 st i...

  Day 2762 (Monday) 30 th December 2024 This is Gorges du Verdon and this is the Old Port in Nice  This was the sunrise this morning, it was beautiful but it was pretty cold all day. As always on a Monday here’s What’s happening in France this week A big crowd on Paris's Champs-Elysees waiting for the New Year's Eve fireworks. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP) Plenty of law changes come into force this week, as the year turns from 2024 to 2025. There’s some celebrating to do, a lucky few get their sales season started, and school-age children gear up for the end of the Christmas holidays Monday Mayotte visit –  France’s current Prime Minister François Bayrou, and five ministers – Élisabeth Borne, Manuel Valls, Valérie Létard, Yannick Neuder and Thani Mohamed Soilihiare – are on the second day of their visit to the cyclone-devastated island département of Mayotte. MPs, meanwhile, are spending some time in their constituencies and are not expected at the National Assembly u...