Day 56, Monday, October 23, 2023

Bob goes exploring on his own today to some small villages near Nice.  Villefranche-sur-Mer, like so many French towns, it is built on hillsides…

and rocky cliffs.  The Rolling Stones recorded Exile on Main Street here in 1971.

The  Rue Obscura is a 430-foot-long passageway under the harbour front houses that dates back to 1260.  

A view from the 16th century citadel.

Bob saw some ‘interesting’ art…an exhibit called The Flying House.  To give a sense of scale, the tennis racket against the wall is about two meters tall.  It is about what you would take if you had to leave your house in a hurry, knowing that you would never return…not sure these would be the items we would take.

Bob took a half hour bus ride from Villefranche to ‎⁨Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat⁩, a fishing village with these interesting sculptures…

and this blue torso that  is a popular frame for taking photos.He then walked for an hour along the coast from Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat⁩ to Beaulieu-sur-Mer before taking the train back to Cannes.  The waves were still quite high today.