L'Horizon Hotel
Travel Blogs from Cabris
Day 16 - The Monte Carlo
... 8364;5 and got €8.32 back ... WINNNING !!! Yay :D. We later enjoyed a €16 drink because we were in the Monte Carlo and why not. Jake and Todd got the James Bond martini's and meg and I got cosmopolitans. There's tasted like petrol and our was a lovely cranberry delight! Meg, jake and Todd all put €10 each on the black jack table. Both meg and jake bombed out on the first round and again on the first round after wasting another ...
We return to the ancestral manse
... As always, the venerable Colombe d’Or restaurant, which guarded the entrance to the village, was surrounded, like a swarm of black flies, by Mercedes, BMWs and Jaguars. The Colombe is stuffed with original art by the likes of Picasso and Matisse—in the 1920’s and 30’s these unknown and impoverished artists stayed at the hotel and the prescient owner accepted their painting as payment in lieu of cash.
Then we walked past the ...
A shriveled saint
... s child.” French police investigated the affair, however, and determined that “no offence had been committed."
But back to Sainte Rosaline. As I said before interrupting myself, in the 1880s the head of the Draguignan Agriculture Department was asked to examine the corpse of Sainte Roseline because of “an insect infestation.” He confirmed the concern, and arranged for the body to be taken into Draguignan for ...
Monte Carlo - May 1st
... in 1866, named in honor of Prince Charles III, is on the Riviera between Provence and Italy, close to the museums of Nice and the glamorous shopping of Cannes. With a permanent population of 35,000, the Principality covers an area of just 0.75 square miles and, after Vatican City, is the smallest independent state in the world.
We dropped anchor around noon today very close to the shore. The Silver Sea Whisper was docked when ...
Day 17 Nice Art
... most of which deal with the creation, the fall, and Moses’ interaction with God. They are very interesting, as each depicts several biblical stories along a time line. His colors are vivid, especially the blues. So, what was there we enjoyed, but there wasn’t much of it. C’est la vie.
The thunder had passed, and we walked through a gentle sprinkle, back to our hotel. ...