Latest figures issued by the FNAIM (France’s national federation of real estate agents) show that prices for ancien (over five years old) properties in France outside the Paris area slowed down in the last quarter.Read more
The Parc Chanot in Marseille is once again the venue for Marseille’s big early autumn ‘Ideal Home Exhibition’, la Foire Internationale de Marseille, running from 23 rd September to 3rd October.Read more
In what I took at first as a huge compliment, and evidence of having successfully fooled everyone into believing I am a proper grown up, I was bequeathed my delinquent 16-year old sister for the summer. Her failing grades and daily threats that she would quit school before graduation were severe enough to panic our father and convince him to put her on a flight to Europe. As I write this she is currently MIA, having ‘runaway’.Read more
When the French Socialist Party's leading hope was arrested on sexual assault charges in New York, the Sofitel hotel, where he was staying, informed its Paris headquarters. The Accor hotel group's security chief immediately then phoned the news through to President Nicolas Sarkozy's office. d.Read more
It is the last French merchant ship that is equipped with sails: the three-master "Le Belem". For 115 years, the oceans oft he world have been a home to the the ship. It is unique and doubtlessly deserves to be classified as a historical monument. For two days, the people of Nice can now experience this piece of maritime history at first hand.Read more
Yesterday I was interviewed about the riots in the UK by a French radio station. The fact that I was asked to comment struck me as strange at first, “I’m not there, I’m in France, what can I say?” was my initial thought.Read more
At first, the affair looked like Manna from Heaven for Nicolas Sarkozy and his Union for a Popular Movement party, or UMP. In the space of one weekend in May, his main opponent in next year's presidential election was eliminated and humiliated.Read more
A team of seven cyclists are setting off from the UK to Nice to attend the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Annual Scientific Meeting.Read more
In my first year living on the Riviera, strapped for cash and linguistically challenged, I worked a season in an ostentatious privately owned villa. By the second week it was hard to see the sun rising through tears of exhaustion.Read more
A year ago I decided I'd like to do some voluntary work. I wondered whether the Samaritans, who provide confidential emotional support by telephone, operated in France.Read more
