Beach Days

Michael and I have been enjoying some Riveria beach time. We are trying to catch a few of the last days of the warm Meditranean.  It has been a bit tricky with dodging the giant thunderstorms that roll in here. Wow! Big, loud and buckets of rain!
I like the beaches in Antibes. They are nice, sandy and full of sea glass. Love it! We have been a bit obsessed with picking it up.  I'm tying to fill up a good size jar to split with my friend Heidi.  She's the one who tipped me off of sea glass on Antibes.  Thanks, Heidi!

We chilled on the beach in Nice in front of the Promenade des Anglais. Very beautiful water but you have to dance over the pebbles to get to the shore.  'Not a very good dancer.  It was very entertaining watching everyone hippity hop on the pebbles in a swimming suit and being in France some of the swimming suits were even more entertaining!

We are off to the village of Mougins, above Cannes,  tomorrow for a few days.  Gonna be exploring the hillside villages of the Cote. 

                                                              Antibes beach

                                                                sea glass!

Promenade des Anglais

                                                         

                                                                    Nice

                                                      pebbles and stone on Nice beach

                                                     rain storm looking out our window

                                                  

Cote d'Azur

old Antibes

Bonjour!
Well, the LeClerc's are on the move again and we have landed on the Cote d'Azur in Antibes, France!
We are really excited to explore the Cote and the south of France.  Maybe a little Italy. Why not!
Our first stop is Antibes, meaning "across from", (Nice) which was founded as a 5th century BC Greek colony. Roman artifacts such as aqueducts, fortified walls and urns can still be seen today. Antibes is also home to one of the worlds greatest Picasso collections.  The museum is inside the chateau Grimaldi where Picasso lived for a short time in 1946 and produced many works.
We enjoyed our first day here strolling the Marche Provencal, taking a dip in the mediterranean and  some French " joie d vivre"!

     Day at the beach!





French style terrace

village street



entrance to market

Provencal olives

spice market

The pigs are watching!