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 04.07.2008 
 

 
 

 

Good cents shown by Niçois in summer sales


Car parks and museum entries in Nice free from this week

03.07.2008 / As shoppers hit the streets of Nice in search of bargains in this weeks summer sales, it has been announced that seven car parks and museums in the city will be free to access as of this week.

Seven of the city’s car parks have offered shoppers the chance to benefit from one hour and twenty minutes of free parking, which will fill their pockets with an added 2.80 euro to spend on their purchases. If the specified time is exceeded though, full prices apply and the period spent parked in the car park will need to be paid in full.

If that wasn’t enough, museums and galleries across the municipality are also opening their doors to visitors free of charge. Tourists and Azuréens won’t pay a cent in over 15 establishments as culture takes a dignified place amongst the hordes on the city’s busy shopping streets.

 

Niçoises Hollywood twins


Angelina has been admitted to a hospital in Nice

02.07.2008 / Angelina and Brad’s twins will be Niçoises. It has been reported that on Sunday at 2pm, Angelina was taken by helicopter to the Fondation Lenval hospital in Nice, where she was admitted into obstetric care. It is here, and not in Marseille or Monaco as the press have previously asserted, that the Hollywood star will soon give birth. Apparently Angelina’s admission has been planned for at least two months.

After Brad and Angelina, and their family, daughter Shiloh and their three adopted children, Maddox, Pax and Zahara, moved to the Côte d’Azur at the end of April, they reportedly chose to consult an obstetric gynaecologist from Nice, Dr Michel Sussman, who is located at the heart of the pedestrian zone.

It seems the couple have been trying to mislead the press where their pregnancy plans are concerned, and they certainly succeeded. The most famous pregnant woman in the world is now staying on the fifth floor of the Vasarélien building at the Fondation Lenval. She is expected to give birth within days to two twin girls. Angelina is said to be in the most beautiful room at the Fondation, with a stunning view of the Baie des Anges. She is reported to have booked four rooms, and of course her bodyguard is present.

So the inhabitants of Nice now have a claim to fame, soon Brad and Angelina’s twins will have been born in the same town as them.

 

Calling shopaholics and bargain-hunters


It’s time to hit the sales

02.07.2008 / Throughout the Alpes-Maritimes, stores will slash their prices for the summer sales from 2nd July to 12th August. Sales in the Var will also begin today, running until 6th August.

Visitors from abroad may be surprised that it is the préfets of each departement who set the sales dates in France, in comparison to individual stores in other countries. The Minister of the Economy, Christine Lagarde, gave the préfets a choice of 15th June or 2nd July as the starting date for the summer sales, and it seems the Alpes-Maritimes wanted to keep its shopaholics in anticipation until the later date.

2008 is the last year of nationwide sales as we know them. From next year, shops will also be allowed to select an extra two weeks to hold their own sales, in addition to the fixed national sales, but they must finish at least one month before the official sales period. The fixed winter and summer sales will also be reduced from six weeks to five weeks.

So bargain-hunters should get their cards ready and make the most of the lengthy sales while they last.

 

 
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