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Piggybacking on Laurie's business trip to Sophia Antipolis (who could resist, right?), hence will make our HQs in Antibes.
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    By the walls of Bastion Saint Andre

    September 16, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F

    We came out on the other side of the Bastion to see more Roman ruins, a small dog park, and a back terrace of The Golden Beef restaurant (we skipped that one). We then continued on the old ramparts to another small square with a monument to Albert 1st of Belgium wo popularly referred to as Knight King
    Dutch: Koning-Ridder, French: Roi-Chevalier) or ( as the case here)
    Soldier King (Dutch: Koning-Soldaat, French: Roi-Soldat) in reference to his role during World War I.
    The weather remained overcast and the sea churning    Read more

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    British/ French monument

    September 16, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F

    Intrigued by both British and French flags flying we made our way past the end of the parapet to that monument. Turned out this was to commemorate the act of HMS Unbroken (P42) - Royal Navy U-class submarine. Commissioned in January 1942, she spent most of her wartime career in the Mediterranean. She landed saboteurs under the command of Captain Peter Churchill at Antibes - hense the monument at the place if landing. She then proceeded to Malta to reform the 10th Flotilla in June 1942.
    As Fate would have it, Unbroken was transferred on loan to the Soviet Union on 26 June 1944, where she was renamed V-2 (Cyrillic: В-2). Sailing under Soviet flag, she sank the German submarine chaser UJ-1220 on 12 October 1944. She spent four years in Soviet service before being returned to the Royal Navy in 1949. She was scrapped at Gateshead from 9 May 1950.
    We spent some time watching the windsail surfers and checked out a square in the Modern section of Antibes, which was perhaps 3-4 blocks from "our neighborhood"    Read more

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    Le Very Happy Hour

    September 16, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F

    ..and what luck it may be, that we got into the neighborhood shortly after The Happy Hour started. 😊😉😇🍷🧉
    Technically I could say Le Petit - Happy Hours ARE petit by nature no matter how long they last.
    We firmly ensconced ourselves in front of L'Ardoise, which actually is a Creperie... but no matter... and happily partook in monitoring (Laurie) and Apresol (moi).
    We won't go into details on how Happy we got, but we had a GRAND time people watching as well as these 2 Norwegian cats in the window across us.    Read more

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    Le Petit Dinner

    September 16, 2023 in France ⋅ ⛅ 75 °F

    Yeah... looks like Du Jour de Le Petites...
    We had an inkling of stopping at Lyonese Charcuterie, but Happiness is a Fickle thing and time (which is too slow for thise who wait) turned "too fast" for us inasmuch as we forgot about closing time and appeared at the door only to see the place getting closed.
    We had to resort to Plan B which resulted in picking ip some provisions, taking them to the apartment and our dinner consisting of baguette avec charcuterie de poulet et tomate for Laurie, charcuterie de jambon et tomate for me, complemented by Tomme Corsica - new cheese we picked up earlier, very reminiscent of Manchego, but milder.
    Desert consisted of some yummy cookies from pâtisserie and some fruit - Des Raisins Italiens et une grosse Pomme Fuji.
    ...
    And there was morning and there was Evening. Day 2

    Bon Nuit 🌃😴    Read more

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    Bon Jour and back to L' Ardoise

    September 17, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F

    Sometimes, it is quite tough to be in a foreign country with different customs. 😕
    We really wanted to go back to Cafe Amore, but they were not opening until 10:00am...and so, for that matter of fact, many other eateries.
    However, l'Ardoise was open, so we stopped there. My (not so) French wife ABSOLUTELY FORBADE me to eat crepes for breakfast because one dies NOT eat crepes from breakfast in France.
    So we did just fine with a slightly simpler fare than yesterday: OJ (not freshly squeezed), croissant, and Cappuccino un Cafe au Lait with small sweet biscuit cookies.
    🎵No sugar today in my coffee, no sugar tonight in my tea🎵... er...nohearts in our coffees either 😒    Read more

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    Garden of Eden

    September 17, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F

    Fortified thus we set out for our next visit - Fort Carré. It's a bit of a haul, not overly much, about 3.5km, and while at it, we stumbled upon this piece of Heaven aptly named The Garden of Eden.
    The focal point of the same name is on the wall. done by two artists coming together to present this chimeric work by MONKEYBIRD, a detailed fresco spanning 120 m².

    MonkeyBird is a French stencil-work duo composed of Louis and Edouard. Their universe is an invitation to a surreal and wonderful world. Time loses its meaning, slipping away before an almost magical tangle of stencils that sketch out their chimeric world stratum by stratum. Together, MonkeyBird walks us through the maze of utopian cities. In their expert hands, the stencil becomes lace. The finesse of the technique harmonises perfectly with that of the mind.    Read more

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    Port Vauban

    September 17, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F

    The old port of Antibes, stretching from what is now Porte Marine to Bastion Saint-Jaume, has been in use since ancient times - the bay at Saint-Roch was used by the Phoenicians as a commercial port and naval base. Its current layout dates back to the 1970s.

    The port has a water area of approximately 62 acres, including a total berthing length of 4,200 linear meters and a total capacity of 1501 places. That makes it the largest harbor in Europe, and it's considered to be "The Yachting Mecca of Mediterranean."
    We had to completely circle around it on our way to the Fort and did so on Esplanade Simone Veil - a Holocaust Survivor and French Polititian.
    The building in the last photo most likely is a hotel but we couldn't find out which one    Read more

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    FORT CARRÉ

    September 17, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F

    Located on the Saint-Roch peninsula, Fort Carré "The Squre Fort" offers a panoramic view of Antibes, its port, and the entire Baie des Anges.
    Built on the orders of the King of France Henry II in the middle of the XVI century, Fort Carré served at the time as both a sentinel for the nearby border with the County of Nice and as a defense post for Antibes, the last French port before this border.
    Operational since 1585, Fort Carré experienced its first attack in 1592 and remained a strategic site until the XIX century.
    Classified as a Historic Monument in 1905, restored by volunteers of the Club du Vieux Manoir between 1979 and 1985, Fort Carré was finally bought by the City of Antibes Juan-les-Pins in 1997 and opened, in 1998, as a Museum.

    Fort as seen from the Esplanade Simone Veil
    Getting to the Entrance
    Parade Ground
    The Chapel
    Casemates    Read more

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    Fort 2

    September 17, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F

    The upper ramparts and gorgeous views

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    Outside the walls of Fort Carre

    September 17, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 81 °F

    Antibes Bastion.
    The grave of Arlon Limburg

    Fort Carré is also a home to the monumental statue of Poilu, erected in honor of the soldiers who died for France during the First World War.

    It took sculptor Henri Bouchard four years to erect the monument, which measures 22 meters high and is therefore the tallest monument to war dead in France.

    At the inauguration in 1927, 261 names were mentioned. Antibes is in fact one of the communes in France which lost the greatest number of its children during the WWI

    There was a fleamarket going on which we checked out before heading out back to Old Town

    And on the way back we saw this Bentley with a green color that just seemed to yell ' WHY?!?!'    Read more

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