Living on the Côte d’Azur goes on, as always and unperturbed if you return back home from a sunny holiday. We love you to keep you updated at an almost weekly base to inform about the important events and knit these together. We bring this French Riviera news update this time from the Colline de Chateau; you know […]
I should apologize to my loyal readers for the later appearance of this weekly blog from the Cote d’Azur. I was purely obsessed with the weather in Brazil, the Grand Prix and of course Max Verstappen, the Dutch F1 talent. Auto racing, I always found this the most soporific sport to look at, after curling […]
The kidnapping of the Cote d’Azur businesswoman Jacqueline Veyrac kept all minds occupied on the French Riviera. This week, another three people got arrested and it becomes clear that indeed the former manager of La Reserve restaurant in Nice was ‘el capo master mindo’ behind the abduction. Cause of all trouble was a dispute over […]
Net French Capital Gain tax After three years of different proposals from the French government to raise the taxes for foreign property owners followed by heated debates at the European Court, the situation in France for people that sell their French Riviera property is finally clear. Net French Capital Gain tax All nationalities are equally […]
The kidnapping of the 76-year-old businesswoman Jacqueline Veyrac was this week’s the hottest news on the French Riviera. You may think ’76 years? ” but in itself it is not surprising that you are still working on the Cote Azur after your retirement age. I know several 70-something persons who are very active and in business. […]
A departure to the French Riviera is for some the beginning of a beautiful and sunny ‘retreat’. Others have entrepreneurial blood steaming in their veins and like to combine the useful with the pleasant. Working and living under the southern French sun is a dream for many. In the series ‘Running a business on the Côte […]
This week, everyone on Earth was a little tense; would humanity succeed to land on Mars? In Nice more than eight hundred stars stargazing experts gathered together to watch the landing live together with local dignitaries on a big screen. If it could happen, it would completely change our lives. I was watching the landing […]
The week began with a small shock; an earthquake in San Remo with a magnitude of 3.7 on the Richter scale. The tremor was felt in Nice and in various villages. We slept through all the commotion, probably the heavy rain and wind made more noise. Yet, the authorities are especially alert to this natural […]
People sometimes say that the French are lagging behind, or at least life in a bubble. Living in that bubble is going on as usual, with sometimes some French earthshaking and startling plans. As a crowdfunding (a digital ‘borrow me money’ action on the Internet) for an idea that has even made the Nice Matin. […]
