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I love the sunshine!

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Posted by holiday-in-france on www.YourFrenchHoliday.com 2 years 5 months ago

Here we are, in the middle of May, and my legs are now exposed to the world! It's a scorcher down here on the French Riviera, and the tourists are invading in their thousands!

The amount of hire cars and foreign registered cars has significantly increased, and it's fair to say that there's a LOT of traffic around the usual hotspots...St Tropez, Monaco, Antibes, Sainte Maxime, Frejus, Saint Raphael and the busiest place here at the moment is Cannes. The world media has descended on Cannes for the film festival, as have the martians....

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To be, or not to be...French that is!

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Posted by holiday-in-france on www.YourFrenchHoliday.com 2 years 7 months ago

Hello et salut!

Having lived in France for several years now, it still never ceases to amaze me when I meet fellow Brits whom are just as "Eng-er-lish" and Non-French as the day they arrived in France...even though they live here too.

Naturally, there are of course many so-called Expats in France, most of whom have the common courtesy to say 'Bonjour', 'Merci', 'Au revoir' etc. but, there are still a large number of "finger-clickers" who one witnesses not even trying to be polite.

I thought the the British were a polite race, whom...

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