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RADA - Riviera Amateur Dramatic Association : radio variety theatre, Thursday thru Saturday at the Mougins School. - Event
Brittains Quiz Night : Friday in Valbonne. Contact to reserve : John 04 93 12 03 97. - Info

Ideas for your Weekend : taking the "pont" and wondering what to do? - Ideas
What's On Now : Calendar of Riviera events on this day and this month. - What's On
Community Calendar : Regular Recurring events, meetings, clubs, churches, weekly or monthly. - Regular Events
Your VO Cinema today and to come : films on the Riviera for the next few days. - Screenings and Access Maps
Cannes Film Festival : 16-27 May, Palais des Festivals - Site
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Seven kilometers of cables installed, 550 open lines, 2000 others and connected fibre optics by the hundreds....
A father in Toulon discovered that the mother of his children is having a relationship with another...
Thursday morning, members of the Friends of the Maghreb discovered their prayer hall vandalized.Orange swastikas and National...
Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah, in competition at Cannes with "After the battle," denies that his film is...
A Malaysian man has maintained his innocence Thursday at the opening of his trial for the murder...

News via Twitter

18th May  - 8 hours ago
Not the way to solve the euro crisis, Mr Cameron. Britain has no influence in Europe - http://t.co/EdmqLSj4
18th May  - 9 hours ago
Cannes 2012: Confessions of a Cannes festival virgin - Telegraph - http://t.co/vodJ5NW9
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RT @TelegraphWorld: Carla Bruni had 'brief but passionate' affair with France's new foreign minister http://t.co/DfjuApAo
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Why Kate Isn't Pregnant - The Daily Beast - http://t.co/CsnuiK7n

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Riviera Rudeness : too much attitude, bad for business? Discussion

Articles and News Features

Business Peter Johnson

The EIRL

As a self-employed business in France you could technically be sued for a mistake in your business and lose your house. Unlike a limited company, such as a SARL, where liability is exactly what it says it is, namely limited, with a sole trader (micro BNC, micro BIC, Auto Entreprise or Entreprise Individuelle), you could lose your personal…
Travel Mike Meade

The Transavia Model

There are low cost airlines - and then there are low cost airlines. Since the birth of no-frills services over 20 years ago, discount carriers have gradually tweaked their offers to accommodate the needs of niche markets within the low cost model. Companies like easyJet and Ryanair give little more for your money than the right to plunk your…

Top Doctor - Daniel Benchimol

Profiles of Residents Patrick Middleton
Most anglophones living here are impressed by French doctors but the media make it clear that a lot of those men and women in white coats…

The “Sadist In A Black Hat” Bows Out

Eye on France Riviera Reporter
Nice, in the time of Jacques Médecin and after, had a reputation as a centre of political and economic corruption. Elisabeth Guigou, as…

Does 'Maman' Know Best?

Eye on France Riviera Reporter
Pamela Druckerman has a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University, and trained in improvisational comedy at the Upright…

Rotterdam

Travel Mike Meade
Mike Meade on that other city in Holland I wasn’t expecting anything like Amsterdam but that’s not what I got. I was expecting a dingy…

Discussion Life on the French Riviera and Cote d'Azur

I think that Michael Walker means the early morning flight to Gatwick which links directly to the Caribbean fl ... More
Any idea how this device is supposed to work? Is it electronic?Never heard of it but with the mo ... More
RAINING? TRY THESE Go to the movies! VO films in our region for the next few days - Screenings and Acces ... More
Thanks for the tips, Dick. I'll try one or 2 when I'm next in Antibes. I don't go there often because I ... More
Actually, The 1996 Atlanta Olympics (officially "Games of the XXVI Olympiad ") made about US$10 million ... More

Blogs by Riviera Residents

I've just came back from Nice airport where I was meeting a friend. He was late so I had some time to spare wandering around both terminals and observing.Both terminals were busy and the language I heard mostly was French....
A feisty debate between Sarkozy and Hollande on French television last night. Neither of them looked presidential, did they? Bickering over figures and sending snide insults across the table at each other. Seems to me that Sarkozy grasps economic...
April 14 is the 100th birthday anniversary of Robert Doisneau, one of France's finest street photographers. Like his compatriots Willy Ronis and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Doisneau captured the life of his times in fragments of decisive moments that document the stories...
The Shipwrecks and UNESCO. There are plenty of wrecks resting on the seabed along our beautiful...
... everyone knows the rest of the saying. Most people don't pay a lot of attention to it though. Greed is a treacherous ally. Expat communities tend to attract scam artists and conmen. I've helped bring down a few of...
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