A Year in Villefranche sur Mer - Moving to France

Day 2881 (Monday) 28 th April 2025 This is the exotic garden in Eze Village   and this is Menton. Our flowers are looking really great It was a little overcast this morning, it was still warm but cloudy. We went into town and saw all these buoys waiting to go out into the bay. We went to Les Palmiers for a coffee and people watched and then walked down Rue du Poilu and it was lovely to see everything opening up again. As always on a Monday here’s What’s happening in France this week (The Local France.) A supporter of the French Communist Party holds a bucket of Muguet flowers (Lily of the Valley) a flower used in France to mark May Day in 2024. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP) From the May Day public holiday and the return to the classroom for many pupils across France to a trial over 'the heist of the century', here's what is happening in France this week. Monday  Back to school  - For pupils in Zone C, which includes Paris, Toulouse and Montpellier, it is back to the clas...

  Day 2880 (Sunday) 27 th April 2025 This is the exotic garden in Eze Village and this is the Old Port of Nice.   It was quite cloudy this morning and Huw went for a walk along the beach. I don’t know what’s happened to this bench where we frequently have a picnic – Huw thinks it must have been hit by a lorry or something. They have moved the new private beach to the very end of the beach where we’ve been saying it should have been all along. Hopefully Deli Bo (last year’s private beach) won’t be rebuilt this year. It’s looking pretty good Here are the rest of the ‘The most unusual places to visit in France.’ The cathedral of erotic sculptures   Credit: Trip Advisor / The cathedral of erotic sculptures in Cahors Region: Occitania French cathedrals and churches are renowned for their architecture and the strange sculptures on their façades, such as the many gargoyles that protect these religious buildings from dark forces. But the cathedral of Saint-Étienne in Cahors has...