A Year in Villefranche sur Mer - Moving to France

  Day 3049 (Monday) 13 th October 2025 This is Antibes and this is Monaco. As always on a Monday here’s What’s happening in France this week. The Local France. Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP) A big week in French politics begins, a former president learns the date of his prison fate, there’s another strike, and schools break up for two weeks. Monday Crime —  Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will learn the date he has to report to prison to begin his  five-year jail term for criminal conspiracy . Politics —  Sébastien Lecornu, at the time of writing the shortest-serving Prime Minister of France’s Fifth Republic, insisted last week that a revised draft budget for 2026 would be presented to the Council of Ministers on Monday — the deadline for the bill to pass Parliament by the end of this year. Given that the French political situation has been changing roughly every 20 minutes recently, we suggest you head to our  p...

  Day 3048 (Sunday) 12 th October 2025 This is Menton and this is Saint Agnes.   It was another lovely sunny day and we walked up the hill to the vide grenier (empty attic) which is similar to a car boot sale only classier. We saw Sue’s cat on the way; when my friend Sue comes to stay she adopts this cat and so it’s known as Sue’s cat, apparently it has its own Facebook page. The streets of the old town are very pretty. d The vide grenier was in the park on the top road and there was a great turn-out I was looking for a pair of boots to wear to the posh wedding we’re going to and I managed to find some for just 3€. When we got home Badger loved them. After the vide grenier we walked back down to town to have some lunch. Here are the rest of places people are advised to go in France this autumn… BAYONNE – FRENCH BASQUE COUNTRY Bayonne in the French Basque Country may not be the first place that springs to mind for an autumn city break. However, this compact city has much to o...