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AIR TRAVEL ALERT. Mon-Tue : Several UK Airports affected by snow.  Check with your airline! British Airways - easyJet - BMI
RIVIERA WEATHER ALERT :. 06 and 83 residents asked to reduce electricity use. Possible electricity cuts this evening.
New motoring regulations detailed in Riviera Reporter 149, now at some distribution points or download pdf now.
Expat Pensions free seminar. Feb 23 in Valbonne.
Blevins Franks Financial Seminars. March 22 in Sophia Antipolis. March 23 at Monte Carlo Country Club
Memorial Service for Dorothy Chamaide to be held at Holy Trinity Church in Nice on March 6.
Papal visit to Monaco : postponed

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Articles from the Archive

Motoring Riviera Reporter

Radar warning U-turn

Once again the bureaucrats got it wrong. Earlier this year it was announced that radar detectors (avertisseurs de radar) would be banned in France. No one had considered the fact that most GPS sat-navs have some sort of speed trap warning system built in. So using a factory installed GPS would, by extension, be illegal in France. That is…
Motoring Mike Meade

French resident, foreign licence

European law permits expat residents to drive in France on the licence of any other EU country. in theory that’s the case but in practice it can be risky. A uniquely expat problem: not every EU licence is valid in every EU country. You must have acquired your permit by passing a test rather than by exchange. So, if you passed your driving…

Now that’s a burger!

Table Talk Nancy Heslin
One of the few things I miss about Canada is digging into a decent burger. Finally Zucchini Blossom in Mougins has come to the rescue with…

Beware the (other) RSI

Business Peter Johnson
Auto Entreprises (AE) were exempt from the contributions towards professional training, but this has been changed as of January 1st 2011…

Our village: Sospel

Visiting the Riviera Riviera Reporter
In another in this occasional series Patrick Middleton visits Sospel in the Alpes-Maritimes Sospel, a village of some 4000 people, 350…

The City of Eight Seasons

Travel Nancy Wilson
Nancy Heslin has never really warmed to the holiday season and in a bid to leave snow and frostbiting temperatures in her past, she left…

Events in the Riviera Community

European Professional Women’s Network
Franglish - French/English language exchange event
European Professional Women’s Network
Sport at Slammers - Rugby Six Nations
France-Grande-Bretagne Toulon Charles Dickens Lect
Franglish - French/English language exchange event

Discussion Living on the French Riviera and Cote d'Azur

New parking sensors in Nice...
Nice parking job. 10,000 sidewalk sensors have been installed in Nice centre and from June will provide GPS...
Prostitution along the lake St. Cassien road.
I am curious to know if anyone here finds the occasional presence of a couple of prostitutes...
Contact details for WEbstore, NIce
I am trying to contact Webstore with some urgency. The telephone number that I have is the...
Quai Jean-Charles Rey
Some years ago I noticed that Quai Barbani in Fontvielle had become Quai Jean-Charles Rey. This occurred...
Kennels, Reputable, Antibes area
Hello Do anyone know of a Reputable kennel, preferably with a veterinarian on premises, in the Antibes/Cannes area?
Unlawful killing of stag on private property
On the afternoon of Wednesday 30th November at 1345 Route de la Colle Tourrettes sur Loup, a...
Having your cake... and your vote... but no tax...
I get more than a little fed up with expat British whingers who left the UK and...

Hot Topic of the Moment

Stag gunned down illegally in Tourrettes sur Loup.
Locals seek to bring the killer to law...

Blogs by Riviera Residents

Molly Brown's Blog - Monte Carlo Madness
There are four buildings in the Place du Casino in the centre of Monte Carlo, photographed by every one of the thousands of tourists who visit the Principality. In spite of an outcry of protest, the Conseil d’Admininistration of Societe...
MikeP's Blog - France Telecom don't do itemised phone bills ..............
Oh dear! France Telecom, the national operator in what is supposed to be a modern country with a first world infrastructure, can't offer a detailed telephone bill showing the number called and the cost of each call. You'd think they...
MikeP's Blog - Relying on electricity, and killing wildlife for 'fun'
We had a power cut this morning, less than half an hour, and it should have been insignificant. I suddenly realised how dependent we are on electricity, despite having grown up somewhere where the supply was erratic and...
MikeP's Blog - Dangerous bus drivers breaking the law
I am rather concerned about, and sick of, seeing the drivers of public buses using their phones whilst driving, and I do mean driving, not just whilst stationary a traffic signal or bus stop, although that too is illegal and...
MikeP's Blog - How scammers work.
Advertise something for sale and you will often get a reply like this : What they then do is send a fake/stolen bank draft for more than the cost of the the article, and ask you to send back the difference...
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