27 degrees, clear, a bit humid
This morning we are back in
France starting the day with another tender journey, but nothing like the last
tender ride…This one was smooth, short, and uneventful.
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| absinthe tasting |
This morning we are
on a walking tour of Antibes starting with a wander through the old town that dates
back to the 5th century starting at the port which again is teaming
with mega yachts. A lot of the tour is wandering
through old streets, hearing from the guide bits of information. We make a stop
at the town church and then we were on to the open-air market. I love it when
we arrive and it is market day. I never buy anything, but just looking at the
meat, fish and produce is very interesting. It’s also interesting to see how
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| street art |
much less expensive cheese is here compared to prices at home.
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| random door |
Next we are off tot the Picasso
Museum – the reason we chose this tour. The building that houses the museum is
the Château Grimaldi, where Picasso lived in 1946. Picasso created 43 drawings
and 23 paintings in his studio here - all are displayed in the museum. Only one of his pieces is signed because he didn’t want the museum to ever be able to sell them.
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| museum - Picasso |
Lastly we visit an absinthe bar.
This place is in the basement of a tiny little shop. According to the guy
serving us everyone has to wear a hat to sip absinthe…I think that is his way
of
laughing at tourists – the bar has about a million hats. It was a lot of fun
watching the water drip slowly over the sugar cube into the glass of absinthe.
We decide to get lunch in town
and then head back to the boat.
One thing I forgot to mention
yesterday is that we saw a whale…or at least we’re pretty sure we saw one, or 2…it’s
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| sculpture outside museum |
ard to say. What we did see was a bunch of spouts for about 5 minutes. What
ever it was, it was thrilling. For as many times as we’ve been on water this is
the first time to have seen any evidence at all of a whale!
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| museum - Picasso |
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| sculpture outside museum |
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