Rain on the Cote D'Azur

 

It rains here.

I read somewhere that there is more rain here than in England, but it is better rain. So the English all came here in the Winters in the 1800's and now it's a Unesco Heritage Site as a Winter Destination. 

This is one of my favorite things about this city and you will hear more about it in the future, but other cities around the world become historical wonders and beauties and thus Unesco Sites and popular tourist attractions and destinations.

This city is a Unesco Site for being a tourist attraction and destination!

Anyway, it rained all last night and all day today, so we didn't even leave the house until three, which we call fifteen o'clock here in France. Get used to it. I hope to soon. We walked to a kind of natural food store where I bought a bottle of organic prosecco just cause I felt like it was the prudent thing to do. And I got potatoes and very wee avocados too since we were far too late for the markets. The streets were thriving, because the streets are always thriving here because this is a Unesco Heritage Site as a Winter Destination. And, it's winter. We walked in something like a driving drizzle to the beach with heavy bags and then we sat there.

This is good enough for anything, sitting on the promenade. But it was a wild treat today as the beach was gone! In all our months here we had yet to see an ocean wild and high enough to come all the way up to the beach wall. The crashing waves were thrilling.

When we had enough of that we had coffees in a tented street cafe on a pedestrian street between here and the ocean.

Then we went and bought cheese.

It was enough for me. I hope it was enough for you.