While exploring the Via Augusta, the Cote D'Azur in France, the highlights included not only glorious Roman ruins, the Via Julia Augusta once reaching the Alps and linking the Gallic Provences with the heart of the Roman Empire, but it brought opportunity to explore Provence and its lane ways. Many stone cottages with attractive fronts stopping us in our tracks.
Of course there was always one on the tour
who insisted in walking against the tide.
These are small images but can be enlarged simply by clicking on the picture.
Space is limited as the photographs explain but then the community spirit it brings can't be ignored. Everyone knows everyone else and all think nothing of greeting their neighbours, good friends or not. And tourists are welcomed. Curiosity abounds and amusement is automatic when the language differences become obvious. Everyone is fond of gardening but not all trust that their pots might be there in the morning. On the other hand they know for sure that their washing is safe.
This nude was the surprise! I discovered this hole in the wall simply by looking up further than the photos required. It just shows you what you might discover if your horizons are widened. But who would bother to chip such a large hole in a sound wall and then not fix the sculpture securely to one of the walls? Those fingers still puzzle me today...they are not real but a part of a much larger sculpture I suspect.
Some delightful photographs here.
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