Fete d Citron

The Menton Lemon Festival

The 79th  Lemon Festival ~

The Lemon Festival, an event quite unique in the world, attracts each year more than 230,000 visitors ~  It's the second biggest event on the Riviera after the Carnival of Nice and before the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Monaco. It uses the services of over 300 professionals and requires 145 tons of citrus fruit

                                          Paris? 

                    Crepe with Grand Marnier

  And the Parade ~ The Floats

          The End ~   couldn't resist  :>)

Cote d' Azure and yachts

The Cote d Azure is all about The Mediterranean. 

Every year in September, The Yacht Show comes to Monaco.  The sheer quantities of Yachts  never ceases to amaze me.  The New European (Italian) designs change every year. On the Cote d Azure, this is maybe the most dynamic industry, right behind Tourism.  It is certainly a feast for the eyes! I get up before sunrise to see them and ALWAYS go out at night to view.

 One evening, after not having spoken in weeks, when we went out on the balcony, Ann looked and said simply, "Oh My God, That is Beautiful."  

 

 

At night, I will walk to the balcony to see the yachts, scan the lights in amazement and go back to my room ~ Only to return 20 minutes later, because my mind tells me it had to be a dream.  "It wasn't THAT extraordinary."   I go back out and ~ yes it is that special!

La Turbie, France

This Roman monument in the village of La Turbie is perched high above Monte Carlo with a spectacular view down to the principality and along the Riviera. Known as La Trophée des Alpes, the trophy of the Alps, it marked the division between Italy and Gaul.

Incredible Views, La Turbie is the highest point on the Roman road. It stretched from Spain to the tip of Italy. Hercules and Augustus Caesar traveled this road and visited La Turbie. How cool is that, to stand where Hercules stood?

 There is just something very special about ancient places, to me.

                                                     The Augustus Stone, from 5BC

                                    It tells the distance from wherever one was placed to Rome!

                          The On site Museum and multilingual Guide are very interesting!

The inscription reads...

 TO THE EMPEROR AUGUSTUS CAESAR, SON OF THE DIVINE (JULIUS CAESAR)
SOVEREIGN PONTIFF, EMPEROR FOR THE XIVTH TIME, TRIBUNE FOR THE XVIITH TIME
THE SENATE AND THE ROMAN PEOPLE

The Roman Senate ordered its construction in 5BC in honour of the emperor Augustus to commemorate the conquest of the Alps and the submission of 44 Ligurian tribes during Augustus' campaigns in 25, 16 and 15 BC. Their submission joined Gaul to Italy. The inscription on the side of the monument,  is said to be the first page of French history