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Day 16 - The Monte Carlo
... to sand beaches. Getting hungry we found a super market and following in the baguette trend we brought some cheese and game and avocado and sat on the curb eating delicious baguettes after searching for ages to find a laundromat and not a dry cleaning we gave up and went back to the hotel. We asked the lady who ran the hotel if she knew of any places and she said she could do it for cheaper. We were delighted but later we found that the price she ...
We return to the ancestral manse
We bid fond farewells to Feelie, Felix, Ina, and Lisa, packed up the car, and drove east. We were headed to St Paul de Vence, where Annie, Emily, and I lived a decade ago. The circuitry that so unerringly remembered The Fox and The Greyhound in Keston wasn't so tuned in to remembering the more recent and more frequently travelled roads to St Paul—both Annie and I would get little flashes of familiarity, but usually by the next roundabout the spark had ...
Introducing Grasse
Well where does on begin, caught the bus to Grasse this morning. The city is about 7km from here and the bus ride itself is an adventure on it's own. Just standing at the bus stop is an experience. No special place to stand, just on the road with not much room to avoid any cars. A little dangerous but special in it's own right. It did not take us very long to reach the city. First stop of course was the Tourist Office. They handed us ...
Only great surprises here
... when we eventually managed to convince her that we had no intention of buying. She could not understand why we would not be doused in her samples. One thing about here is after you have been in a few perfume shops you feel a sitting duck for all the insects in the area.
We sat and enjoyed a very creamy ice cream and took in the viewpoints again. I think this will be a return trip for us in a day or two.
Just on the edge of the village is a house with a ...
The Nose Knows
... up to Grasse. Lucky for me Ty is in need of a gift for Lauren, so we head to the Fragonard Perfume Factory! We jumped in on a tour with a bus load of English tourists to tour their perfumerie. The tour was free and we were able to see some amazing distillers that were used to extract the essential oils from the flowers, leaves and roots of plants grown in the region. After teaching many aromatheapy classes ...
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