After a long and exhausting Exchange 2000 course for Jacqui in Sophia Antipolis, Ed flew over to meet her for a few days holiday. Ed's favourite sister, Louise, happened to live nearby in Monaco. She provided superb accommodation, a shipping magnate and a small child.
Beausoleil - Lou's Flat
View
from Louise's balcony looking towards Cap Martin and into Italy.
Laura
with her little ones.
Indoor gymnastics
Jacqui and Laura posing on Lou's balcony.
Monaco
The
sea in the harbour pretty rough when Ed and Jacqui went down around midnight
to investigate.
Ed sitting uncomfortably on the Monte Carlo harbour wall.
Then
it was Jacqui's turn.
Just before a huge wave came from nowhere and soaked
our intrepid explorers, Ed managed to get this picture. Despite getting completely
soaked the MX-700 carried on working - albeit after a night drying out!
Cannes
View
of a Suquet fruit & veg shop in Cannes.
Asparagus
neatly arranged at a market in Cannes.
More
from the market in Cannes. People eat this stuff? Hmmm.
In the summer this beach is sunny and really hip,
but when we were there it was all a little more wintry. A good job then that
Jacqui wore more than just her swimsuit.
No trip to the South of France would be complete without
a chance to gawk at some quality Art Nouveau glass. This time M. Rene Lalique
obliged.
Nice
At
an evening meal in Nice, Ed ordered what looked to be an averagely proportioned
chocolate mousse for desert. Little did he know that the restaurant would clear
the EEC chocolate and sugar mountains in one go just to prepare it for him!
At the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum in Nice,
Jacqui came across a weird mirror in the loos.
Jacqui and her chum Bernie chatting in front of
a top notch slice of Robert Indiana - Modern & Contemporary Art, Nice.
St Paul de Vence
St
Paul de Vence is a classic old style French town/village nestling at the very
top of a hill. It's now an artists' colony and contains the rather wonderful
Golden Thumb restaurant.
Jacqui and Laura share a moment.
Laura keeps on smiling as the scary looking bald guy
abducts her.
Like
brother, like sister. The Wenns bashing their mobiles.
Ed
& Laura chilling on a bench taking in the view around St Paul.
Laura found a cat to play with....
But then it ran away. Laura and Jacqui track the cat
as it makes its escape.
Louise fending off a sales pitch on her mobile -
didn't they know she was on holiday?
The girls in St Paul.
[This page was posted on Sunday, 12 August, 2001 8:21 PM]
