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      <title>Investing in the future</title>
      <description><![CDATA[As readers from The Riviera Times know, RFP is a very transparent financial adviser and all comments on financial markets and articles can be checked during the months after they have been published on our website. We concluded our article in The Rivera Times January 2011 as follows: "Consequently, we remain very careful and we prefer to wait before investing again on stock markets".]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Not Such a Happy Birthday</title>
      <description><![CDATA[It was on New Year's Day 10 years ago that the euro turned into coins and banknotes in the pockets of the citizens of 11 countries.  In the weeks before, the dire predictions had resembled those of 2000 when the "Millennium Bug'' had been forecast to freeze computer systems and cause jumbo jets to crash at midnight on 1st January  - especially when they flew across the dateline - and so on and so forth.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>10 unusual financial products</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Everybody has heard about savings, stocks or bonds, but banks are actually very innovative. We would like to introduce you to 10 types of investment you are probably not familiar with. Here are the first five. Next month, we will present the next five. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Momentum on the Left</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The autumn rentrée belonged to the French Socialist Party. It took a majority in the Senate for the first time in the 52-year history of the Fifth Republic; then, it successfully carried out primaries to choose the candidate to face Nicolas Sarkozy in presidential elections next spring, giving François Hollande, a former party chief, a resounding victory. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Property prices slow</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Latest figures issued by the FNAIM (France’s national federation of real estate agents) show that prices for ancien (over five years old) properties in France outside the Paris area slowed down in the last quarter. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Ideal Home Exhibition in Marseille</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Parc Chanot in Marseille is once again the venue for Marseille’s big early autumn ‘Ideal Home Exhibition’, la Foire Internationale de Marseille, running from 23 rd September to 3rd October.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>This month: Generations of socca and sisterhood</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In what I took at first as a huge compliment, and evidence of having successfully fooled everyone into believing I am a proper grown up, I was bequeathed my delinquent 16-year old sister for the summer. Her failing grades and daily threats that she would quit school before graduation were severe enough to panic our father and convince him to put her on a flight to Europe. As I write this she is currently MIA, having ‘runaway’.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Plots and issues</title>
      <description><![CDATA[When the French Socialist Party's leading hope was arrested on sexual assault charges in New York, the Sofitel hotel, where he was staying, informed its Paris headquarters. The Accor hotel group's security chief immediately then phoned the news through to President Nicolas Sarkozy's office. d.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>London calling</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was interviewed about the riots in the UK by a French radio station. The fact that I was asked to comment struck me as strange at first, “I’m not there, I’m in France, what can I say?” was my initial thought. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.rivieratimes.com/index.php/columns-article/items/london-calling-1108.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>No gift from the gods</title>
      <description><![CDATA[At first, the affair looked like Manna from Heaven for Nicolas Sarkozy and his Union for a Popular Movement party, or UMP. In the space of one weekend in May, his main opponent in next year's presidential election was eliminated and humiliated.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.rivieratimes.com/index.php/columns-article/items/no-gift-from-the-gods-6607-1207.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>This month: all that glitters</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In my first year living on the Riviera, strapped for cash and linguistically challenged, I worked a season in an ostentatious privately owned villa. By the second week it was hard to see the sun rising through tears of exhaustion. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Fraternal connection</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Marseille. Its deep-red bouillabaisse fish stew; its old port; its plunging views on the Mediterranean; its calanques, the picturesque bays hewn from the rocks on its outskirts.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 06:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>On false friends</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Continuing our new series of French words resembling English words, but not having the same meaning (faux amis), here are a few more classic examples... ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 04:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>On the buses</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Explore the region for the price of a two euro return bus fare: RT journalist Carolyn Reynier continues her tour of the best bus routes in the Alpes-Maritimes.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 04:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>RT's hidden gems</title>
      <description><![CDATA[This little jewel has an unprepossessing exterior but walk up the steps and you'll discover a tiny treasure trove of delights. The Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle displays the discoveries of 19th century naturalist and museum founder Jean-Baptiste Vérany and his scientific colleagues, Jean-Baptiste Barla and Antoine Risso. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Waiting for the sky to fall</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Everything points to a Socialist victory in next year’s presidential election.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Moving beyond a spring clean</title>
      <description><![CDATA[At this time of year, I love a good spring clean. The sun comes out and I come around from months of baggy jumper wearing and Radio 4 listening and I suddenly want my world to be sparkly and in order.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.rivieratimes.com/index.php/columns-article/items/moving-beyond-a-spring-clean.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>On the buses</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Explore the region for the price of a two euro return bus fare: RT journalist Carolyn Reynier continues her tour of the best bus routes in the Alpes-Maritimes.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.rivieratimes.com/index.php/columns-article/items/on-the-buses-3103.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>This month: interview with a Mediterranean maestro</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Theo Randall, former head chef at London’s famous River Café has been heavily influenced by his holidays as a child in Italy and his frequent visits to the French Riviera. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.rivieratimes.com/index.php/columns-article/items/this-month-interview-with-a-mediterranean-maestro-2703.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>RT's hidden gems</title>
      <description><![CDATA[You’d be forgiven for walking past the small ochre yellow chapel of the Miséricorde in the Cours Saleya in Nice’s old town. It is rarely open. It belongs to the Confrérie des Pénitents Noirs, a brotherhood created in Nice in 1329 following a cholera epidemic. It is the undisputed jewel in Nice’s baroque crown.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Holidaying with autocrats</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Would things have been better if they had not chosen Tunisia and Egypt for their holidays?]]></description>
      <link>http://www.rivieratimes.com/index.php/columns-article/items/holidaying-with-autocrats-1403.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>On the buses</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Explore the region for the price of a two euro return bus fare: RT journalist Carolyn Reynier continues her tour of the best bus routes in the Alpes-Maritimes.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.rivieratimes.com/index.php/columns-article/items/on-the-buses-0203.html</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 04:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Holiday hotspots sans politics</title>
      <description><![CDATA[At the end of last year, I came across an article that claimed visitor numbers in Europe’s most popular holiday destinations, like the Costa del Sol and the French Riviera, were on the slide. Turns out that with the increasing number of budget flights to the cheaper, perma-sunny coastlines of countries like Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt, pricey holidays to euro-currency countries were losing their appeal for crisis hit north Europeans.     ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.rivieratimes.com/index.php/columns-article/items/holiday-hotspots-sans-politics-0103.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>This month: Creature comforts for cold times</title>
      <description><![CDATA[If you get up early enough, while the more rational part of your brain is still asleep, you can make your way down the deserted streets to the sea and dive in.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.rivieratimes.com/index.php/columns-article/items/this-month-creature-comforts-for-cold-times-2702.html</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A sullen start</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The New Year for France’s politicians began badly. On the first weekend after the holiday, a gaggle of Socialist Party leaders trooped off to Jarnac, in the Cognac region, to pay their respects at the graveside of the late President François Mitterrand on the 15th anniversary of his death. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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