Taxe d’habitation and taxe foncière The bills for these taxes will be sent out soon. Who must pay – who is exempt – and who is eligible for a reduction Bills for the taxe foncière will be arriving at French addresses soon – with a deadline for payment next month. This will be followed by the taxe d’habitation which […]
Fatal chopper crash – A man and his son from the Var have been killed in a helicopter crash. The father and son from Le Luc died yesterday morning when their chopper came down near Valouse, in the Drome department. The father, a businessman in the construction sector, was piloting the Robinson helicopter. The body […]
Centrum Cagnes sur Mer, lichtbewolkt, 28 graden. Het is druk, de kinderen zijn allemaal naar hun school gebracht door de ouders; in ons geval Fé voor het eerst naar de CP, Soso naar het collège en Juul naar het Lycée. En wij? Wij genieten van de mooiste maand van het jaar, van de teruggekeerde rust […]
De haaienplaag en de nieuwswaardigheid aan de Franse Riviera is alweer geluwd; blijkbaar is een haai in de baai het helemaal niet zo bijzonder. Onze vriendin Scarlett, advocate en geboren en getogen in Cagnes sur Mer zei dat ze niet anders weet dan dat er in augustus haaien in de zee zijn. ‘Daarom ga ik […]
Fatal bus crash – Investigations continue into a coach crash on the A-8 motorway that left a child dead and 42 people injured. The Romanian tourist coach ended lying on its side, on the wrong side of the road, after crashing near Vidauban, in the Var. The accident occurred at 9.31 yesterday morning, as the […]
Supermarket hold-up – A gang of masked and armed bandits yesterday held up a supermarket at La Gaude. They threatened five staff with handguns at the Intermarché store during the 6am raid. The pair escaped with an undisclosed amount of money from the supermarket’s two cash machines and the store’s safe. Missing girl search – […]
Elderly beachgoer missing – A man in his sixties has disappeared and is feared drowned at a Saint-Laurent-du-Var beach. The man was reported missing yesterday afternoon, when a fellow bather alerted rescuers. 20 searchers, including divers and a helicopter, failed to find the swimmer. Swimmers take plunge – The success of local swimmers at the […]
Missing German hiker – A search is underway for a tourist missing in the Verdon valley. The 35-year-old German was last seen on Tuesday of last week, when he set off for a trek. He was walking alone along the GR99 trail, between Bauduen and les Salles-sur-Verdon. The man is described as 185-centimetres tall and […]
Haaien heb je in alle soorten; witte, blauwe en menselijke. De witte en blauwe zijn hier het gesprek van de dag want de hoeveelheid haaien aan de Côte d’Azur wordt met de dag meer; na het strand van Cagnes sur Mer en Villeneuve Loubet wordt naar verwachting nu ook het strand van Cannes afgesloten. Onze […]