Piggybacking on Laurie's business trip to Sophia Antipolis (who could resist, right?), hence will make our HQs in Antibes.
Truly looking forward to explore as much as we can, and of course Mangez bien, riez souvent, aimez beaucoup :)
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  • Amour Café

    September 16, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F

    Had a very nice and relaxing sleep which was needed after full 1.5 days of travel.
    Waking up and looking for a place to have some petit-déjeuner came upon this place.
    Right around the corner from us, over 1K reviews with 4.9/5 average.... and who can resist the name, right?
    It did not disappoint. Great friendly service and a good simple breakfast that hit the spot.
    Petit Formule includes freshly squeezed OJ, toast (yeah... toasted fresh French bread 🥖) with butter and jam and coffee (Laurie opted for Capuccino, while I - quand en France, oui,? 😇 - Café au Lait)
    Yum yum 😋 😋 😋
    ... and we got hearts (appropriately) in our coffees....
    We might make it the breakfast place for duration!
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  • Market Provençal

    September 16, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F

    Finishing with breakfast we set off to visit a museum and passed the famous Marché Provençal on the way...
    ....er... Methinks I'll let the pictures do the talking.
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  • Walk along Promenade Amiral de Gasse

    September 16, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F

    A beautiful walk on The Promenade. For History nuts like me, it is named after François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse, Marquis of Grasse-Tilly (13 September 1722 – 11 January 1788), who was a career French officer who achieved the rank of admiral. He is best known for his command of the French fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781 in the last year of the American Revolutionary War. It led directly to the British surrender at Yorktown and helped gain the rebels' victory.
    That said, it is ONE WINDY place to walk, we had to hold our hats in hands most of the time. As we were sauntering towards the Picasso Museum, I noticed a building where, turned out, Nicolas de Staël lived and died. (The tablet attests to the fact). De Staël born Nikolai Vladimirovich Stael von Holstein (Russian: Николай Владимирович Шталь фон Гольштейн) in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1914. (His father, Russian Lieutenant General, Baron Vladimir Stael von Holstein was the last Commandant of the Peter and Paul Fortress). Family emigrated in 1919 because of the Russian Revolution.
    Stael became a painer and was known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration, and textiles.
    Then right by The Picasso Museum, we came upon an old... yeah...lol I can say THAT again... Roman Cistern!!! 😮
    Granted, you can't see much, but still...
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  • Picasso Museum

    September 16, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F

    The Château Grimaldi was originally built in the late fourteenth century as the residence of the town's feudal lords Marc and Luc Grimaldi, scions of the famous Grimaldi Dynasty, and has borne their name ever since.(Yes, think Monaco, Prince Reineir and Grace Kelly!!!). Picasso lived here for 6 months in 1946. He and his 2nd wife bequeathed number of works to the museum. Today the collection totals 245 works by Pablo Picasso, incl. “La Joie de vivre“, “Satyr, Faun and Centaur with Trident“, “Still life with owl and three sea urchins“, “The Woman with the sea urchins” and “She-Goat“.
    In my shots below you can see his paintings of a fisherman, some nudes and glazed pottery.
    An unexpected surprise was to stumble upon Michaelangelo's Dying Slave & Rebellious Slave, on the loan from The Louvre.
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  • Museum Courtyard

    September 16, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F

    Various sculptures on display and beautiful view of Mediterranean
    Also, I forgot to mention that today was a freebie entrance day for museums, so we got lucky. You can see the line qued in when we walked out.
    We are also glimpse the plaza and arches in front of The Cathedral (next footprint)
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  • Antibes Cathedral

    September 16, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F

    Official name: Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculée-Conception d'Antibes or Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Platea d'Antibes.
    Of course, Wikipedia provides great information; check it out at
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibes_Cathedral
    My photos include beautiful carved walnut front doors with St.Sebastian and St.Roch ( high in Reverence by Camino Pilgrims- Blow up the image and notice Pilgrim's Hat, staff and shells on cloak), Joseph with Baby Jesus, St.Antony of Padua, St.Peter, Sacred Coer of Jesus, St.Anne, thePieta and.... Alexander Suvorov...?...🤔... (LOL not really, some Bishop, but the resemblance is there, so I couldn't resist 😉)
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  • More streets of Old Town

    September 16, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F

    We continued meandering on the streets of Old Town, eventually making to The Garden of Poets with a small bust of Victor Gugo that has his Homge to the Antibes:
    "Everything here shines, everything blooms, everything sings, the sun, the woman, the love are here at home, I still have the resplendence in my eyes and in my soul”.
    The cacti were in the bloom, so I snapped couple of pictures
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  • Le Petite Lunch

    September 16, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F

    As we walked through the streets, many servers started hustling folks sitting outside to inside. Although it was pretty much the same overcast as it has been since morning, we figured they know what they are doing, so we decided to go back to the apartment and have some lunch. We did right, because about 3mins after we walked in, it started to rain...
    So here is our little lunch:
    Vin Rose, baguette, pommes avec Chamembert
    C'est seeemple, no?😉😂😍
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  • Archeological Museum

    September 16, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F

    We can see clearly now - the rain is gone.
    And so we sashayed (after 14:00 the French don't saunder, so we follow the suit 😉) to the Archeological Museum which turned to be like 100 meters from Jardin des Poets (actually if you go back to that footprint and zoom you will see the old stone wall straight ahead - that's where the museum is).
    And yes, this one was also free today (we didn’t complain).

    Created in 1963, Musée d'archéologie d'Antibes is located at Bastion Saint-André, a military stronghold built by Vauban in the late XVII century. Its two vaulted galleries are home to the Antibes’ permanent archaeological collection, made up of objects excavated both on land and in the sea. It has allowed us to reconstruct the history of the town during Antiquity as well as the history of Ligurian, Greek, and Roman populations who have left their mark on Antibes.
    Ancient Roman artifacts, coins & other historic finds on display in a snug seaside fort-museum.
    No, these are NOT Roman toilets. This is a double oven.
    The part of water Aqueduct outside is also cool.
    The 1st photo shows some artifacts going back to Etruscans, then Greeks, Greek colony, and finally Romans from the conquer into Pax Romana.
    Some Stella's bear marks of Titus Flavius Valerius... with a name like this, I would SWEAR that there has to be a connection to Flavia Dynasty but could not peg it conclusively.
    The amphora are neat, some of them are from Africa.
    And,sorry, but NO again, it is not a Roman Jacuzzi but an inner courtyard fountain. I ran into a similar one on Camino shortly after Fonfria (Cassie, you getting this?)
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