Saturday we hopped on a plane and headed for the south of France to visit a family with whom Ashley is very close. They live in Grasse, which is very close to both Nice and Cannes (I tried to incorporate "Grasse" into the title of this post also, but it just didn't work out no matter how I played with it).
Today, we went to Cannes, which hosts the famous film festival. It also has some really really nice beaches.
As we gazed into the Mediterranean, I told Ash: "Just think... over two thousand years ago Odysseus sailed this sea. The Trojan War was fought across these waters. All the great heroes of antiquity were here, cooling themselves in the sun just as we are now."
"I knew you would say something like that," she replied. "Always going on about those Greeks."
(Also, let me take this opportunity to compliment the bus system in France. Whatever their other failings, and trust me, there are plenty, the French know how to economize transport in this region. We took one bus for an hour and transferred to another bus for twenty minutes... and the total fare was a little more than a dollar each. Go European socialism!)
And here's a picture of a little beach grill with a very name that just barely avoids paying big bucks for copyright infringement:
Finally, let me tell you about a very funny advertisement campaign here in France for Orangina. Apparently, this commercial was taken off the air in the USA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKK37G-ZWvk
In short, there's an entire campaign: billboards, television ads, subway ads, etc, all associating Orangina with highly-sexualized anthropomorphic animals. But not just mammals. Oh no. You can see Orangina ads with a sexy insect, a penguin, an octopus... there's even one with a sexy cactus. It doesn't have a face. But it does have breasts and some kind of sexy little number in red. Here's a sampling, for you refreshment and pleasure.
Weird!
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