Saturday, July 3, 2010

Corniches, Lower, Middle, Superieur

And, the next day, we drove from Nice to Menton, on the Italian border, traveling a bit of the lower and middle Corniches to Menton, then the superior Corniche back to Nice. We really like this part of the world. Who wouldn't?!
The harbor at Villefranche






Monte Carlo








Menton











More Menton, Italy in the distance, where the high bridges
enter the tunnels, then emerge onto high bridges...











A nice apartment building overlooking
Menton, where we had lunch; great view,
lots of road noise, especially as the
Lamborghinis and Lotuses downshift...















Never far away, a gun emplacement, trained on Italy,
which "stabbed its neighbor in the back" (FDR) in 1940







Monte Carlo again








In La Turbie, on the Corniche Superieur, the Trophy of the
Alps, presented by the Senate and People of Rome to the
new Emperor, Augustus, celebrating his conquest of the 40
nasty Alpine tribes












Returning to Nice, from the northwest

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