A Year in Villefranche sur Mer - Moving to France

  Day 2914 (Saturday) 31 st May 2025 This is Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat and this is the Promenade des Anglais in Nice.  Are these France’s weirdest festivals? Published: 24 August 2017 by   Peter Stewart     From giant sculptures made from lemons to pig squealing competitions, there are plenty of bizarre festivals in France. These are the 13 most unusual ones we could find. La Pourcailhade Trie Sur Baïse, Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie When it comes to unusual events, this annual porcine celebration in south-west France comes top of the list. Held in what was once the country’s main pig-rearing region on the second Sunday in August, the festival features everything from stalls selling sausages to piglet races where visitors can bet on which creature they think will win. The strangest part of this event has to be the cri de cochon, or pig-squealing championship, where contestants have to make different pig noises from the various stages of the animals’ life cycle. S...

  Day 2913 (Friday) 30 th May 2025 This is Nice and this is Menton. It was lovely and warm today and we decided to go to Ventimiglia on the train, which was packed. All of France have made a bridge to get an extra day off for Ascension Day and our beach was absolutely rammed. As usual when we got to Ventimiglia we went for a coffee in a local café where we were visited by this lovely little bird. The lady sitting next to us gave us some crumbs to feed him and he stayed for a while. We went to the market but we were both disappointed and didn’t get anything and there were hundreds of tourists around, I think today will be the last time we go there until the autumn. After the market we went for lunch and were chuffed that when we finished the waiter offered us a limoncello. Every restaurant used to do this but it’s getting less and less common these days. After lunch we went to the fruit and veg market and Huw got stuck with a very nice but pushy stall holder and bought more than he...