THE FRENCH RIVIERA'S ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWS MAGAZINE
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Photography: The golden hours
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June 21st is summer solstice, the day of the year when dawn and dusk linger the longest, which makes it the best time to make use of the "golden hours".There are two golden hours every day of the year. The morning hour starts just before sunrise; the evening is the last hour before sunset. What makes these times of day, sometimes referred to as "magic hours", so… Read More
Quitting the EU could spell expat disaster
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Commented article: View here UKIP leader Nigel Farage, a former commodities trader, is not prepared to wait four years for an EU referendum. Photo: Euro Realist Newsletter By most accounts Nigel Farage's anti-European UK Independence Party will be an influential player, maybe even a new coalition partner for a Conservative Party without David Cameron, after the… Read More
Golf: Chateau Taulane
Looking down from the tee of the short par 4 sixteenth towards the well-protected green, the Lachans mountain rising imposingly behind. When I hear the news in April that Chateau Taulane has opened for play after its winter rest, then I know spring is truly here and that summer won’t be too far behind.Taulane, half an hour above Grasse on the Route Napoleon, is… Read More
Every man has two countries ... or three if you're Charles Glass
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Charles Glass has had a career that reads like a movie script – war correspondent, interviewing hijackers and being kidnapped. These days the 62-year-old spends his time… More...
The Good Medicine of Queen Victoria's Doctor - William Allen Sturge
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Some years ago researching a university project, I came across a copy of a Nice-Médicale brochure, published by a 19th-century group of hygiene and public health doctors in… More...
Nicolas Palthey - It runs in the family
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Charity begins at home. Nicolas Palthey is following in the steps of his sister Alexandra ... all the way to Haiti. In 2011, as part of a volunteer project at school,… More...
The Rue to France - Lisa and Johann Pepin
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When Lisa Pepin first met her husband Johann in Madison, Wisconsin at a mutual friend’s party she describes it at a coup de foudre. He was working on a Master’s degree and… More...
Be your child’s fitness role model
It always amazes me how much energy children have: they run, jump and skip for hours. We too were once like that, but over the years our "oomph" has subsided and staying… More...
Henning Mankell: Paradise after Wallander
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Henning Mankell sits across from me at Le Clemenceau in Old Antibes, sipping his red wine. The creator of Inspector Wallander, which was adapted into English to become an… More...
If your Chardonnay dream turns sour, where next?
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So you’re one of those who’ve found that living in France hasn’t brought the happiness you hoped for, so where can you move to? Well, if you’re relatively young – it’s more… More...
Are expats happy?
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I read quite a lot of the research which comes out about British expats in France. A lot of it reaches positive conclusions but these are quite often contradicted by what we… More...
4 Apps for summer
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Tracking Jellyfish It's a subject we've covered in these pages because jellyfish are a recurring problem along the Riviera coast in the summer. Some of our beaches have even… More...
Golf: Tips from the pros
One of four pros at the Old Course, Thomas Vander Clock shares with Riviera Golfer some interesting practice drills. Thomas Vander Clock was a junior at the club before going… More...
M&S: No shirts, sandwiches or chicken tikka massala for Nice
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Back in 1992 this magazine welcomed Marks and Spencer to Nice (Reporter 39, cover) and this very British retail presence was welcomed with enthusiasm by many readers,… More...
Winners of HSBC photography prize at André Villers Photography Museum
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Musée de la Photographie André Villers, Mougins, hosts HSBC Prix pour la Photographie to show work by photographers, Cerise Doucède and Noémie Goudal. 29 June – 16 September… More...
Old and Feeble
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I’m referring to the French annual Boat Tax – the droit de passeport – for residents in France who on January 1st each year own and/or operate a foreign-flag vessel over 7… More...
Golf: A Grand Old Lady, with a few facelifts
The character-packed face breaks into a smile and the eyes shine with pride. “This is the soul of the Old Course,” says Jean-Pierre Martin, pointing at a centuries-old… More...
Satellite reception - The Reality of TV
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“Watch BBC1, ITV, Channel Four and Five with our simple IPTV Box. Just plug into your router and get all these channels no dish required.” You will not be able to buy this… More...
Pack up your troubles
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Here on the Riviera there is a greater percentage of high value and long distance international moves than most places. Meet the people who can take you where you need to go.… More...
Your move: get it right
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All you need to know about changing base on the Côte d’Azur Recent research from Bosch Power Tools claims the average Brit moves house about eight times in their lifetime… More...
“In quires and places where they sing”
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A couple of issues back we mentioned the Riviera International Singers which last December marked their 25th anniversary. Wolf Burg sent us some additional information which… More...
A Swell Way to Safe Boating
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Maybe you’re looking a buy a boat, or, more likely in these difficult times, you’re looking for the next best thing – hiring one.Either way you’ll need you know the ropes –… More...
Home on the Grange
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“How are you today? Isn’t your son from England coming on a visit this week?” a nurse at Victoria in Mouans-Sartoux asks one of the residents, a Brit who admits he’s “not… More...
The only elegant view in Monaco
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If you arrive in Monaco at Jardin Exotique, the road takes you down to the Casino where there is a traffic light; you either turn right to go down to the port, left to… More...
So you’ve decided this is the year you’ll really give up smoking?
Don’t think it’s going to be easy. The French medical magazine Prescrire recently carried details of a cross-national survey which followed nearly 4000 smokers in their… More...
On your Marques . . .
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“One of the major changes for this year’s show is that for the first time helicopters will be available to buy.” Director, Steven Saltzman. It would be easy not to like a guy… More...
Picture This: How to be a Pap
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Festival season is fast approaching and with it an opportunity to create some lasting memories with unique, out of the ordinary shots with a little bit of effort. Access… More...
Meet the neighbours
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If you fancy going somewhere really exotic and different for a minibreak, try Liguria. The Italian province that borders the Alpes-Maritimes is a world away from Côte d’Azur,… More...
Nice to meet you
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Nice is looking for volunteers to act as “greeters” to the city, a scheme first tried in New York some years back with success – Lynn Brooks wanted to share a slice of the… More...
Policies for pooches
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Here’s an odd statistic: while 80% of Swedes take out health insurance for their dog as do 35% of Brits, only 4% of the French hold a policy to cover vets’ bills. One common… More...
Red alert
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Traffic light cameras are spreading fast – there are more than 20 operating in the Alpes-Maritimes, and the Marseille area has almost as many. Drivers from outside France are… More...
Can words help?
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Peter Massey, a priest of the Church of Ireland, who has worked in the Var for some years, has much experience of talking to the dying and to those they leave behind. Peter… More...
Time is on their side
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Figures just out show the wide age gap that still exists in France between retirement ages in different trades, despite reforms in 2003, 2008 and 2010 that tried to level the… More...
Wet, wet, wet
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The ladies on the bus moaning about the weather are right for once – since last September there has been a remarkable, and it is hoped temporary, change in the climate of… More...
Bjorn to Win
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First there was Stelios, then Michael O’Leary, and now a craggy-faced Norwegian called Bjorn Kjos (pictured) is set to be the new hero of the low-cost flier.Norwegian… More...
Goldie Locks
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Keys seem to be more trouble on the Côte d’Azur than anywhere else. If you don’t lose them yourself, then the family who have rented your place for the summer will do the job… More...
Pumping us dry
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Could it be au revoir to lower gazole prices at the pumps?The fact that France is not a consumer-led economy was brought home to diesel-driving staff on the Riviera Reporter… More...
The canine connection
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Dr Thomas Stuttaford, the very sensible medical columnist of The Oldie, wrote recently of the key role dogs play in human social life. Not only do they themselves offer… More...
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The Riviera Reporter Magazine has been "the Bible for Riviera residents" since 1987 and is a must-read for local English speakers of any nationality.
The core content is a familiar mix of practical information, French and regional news and human interest, all with a largely local slant.
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The Riviera Reporter Magazine has been "the Bible for Riviera residents" since 1987 and is a must-read for local English speakers of any nationality.
The core content is a familiar mix of practical information, French and regional news and human interest, all with a largely local slant.
Copyright © Riviera Reporter SARL. All rights reserved.