Picto Diary - 28 June 2018 - St. Paul de Vence

Above: Passengers aboard Disney Magic. 28 June 2018. Breakfast in Cabana Restaurant (fan tail 9th deck).

This is a ship of families, including many three generation families.

Disney cruise is a very well executed, family oriented operation with something for all.

There is a good feeling aboard.

All the better to enjoy now considering the ongoing decline of family formation in the Western world.

I enjoy being here.

Above: Bishop. Cannes, France wharf. 28 June 2018.

In search of Johnny Depp... or is it George Clooney.... circus performers in an age before media.

Disney Magic way out there.

I've spent a lot of time on the French Riviera... but, never in Cannes nor in St. Paul de Vence, destination of today's tour.

During the early naughts I kept a motorcycle based in Nice. Over the course of five or six years I rode many roads from Avignon to Messina... sometimes with friends, sometimes accompanying TIMDT and her cronies and sometimes alone. I also rode my Ducati ST4S in Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica, ferrying from the mainland from either Livorno or Genoa... or by crossing by ferry from Sicily to Messina (channeling George Patton).

We would stay at Hotel Diana in Venice for most of our Riviera trips. On 11 September 2001, we walked into the Hotel Diana to observe fifteen or twenty huddled around the hotel lobby TV set. They were watching the collapse of the Twin Towers.

Everyone was stunned. We went on with our "holiday" but it was suffused with a kind of somber uncertainty about the future. French people we would encounter over the course of the next two weeks or so, were universally friendly and sympathetically sorrowful to us over the course of the visit.

Au dessus: L'Evecque a Cafe de La Place. St. Paul de Vence, France. 28 Juillet 2018.

Mise en scene: Cafe de la Place, St. Paul de Vence.

Il pleut.

J'entre cette etablissement pour sortir de la pluie.

Je commande un verre de vin rouge ordinaire.

Quand la pluie s'arrette, je demande au patron l'addition.

Je tiens au patron ma carte de credit.

Patron: Pas de carte de credit! N'avez vous pas de la monnaie?

L'Eveque: Pourqui je ne peut pas utilizer la carte de credit?

Patron: C'est affiche! Pas de carte de credit!

L'Eveque: Alors, il faut que j'aille trouver un distributeur. Je ne peut rien faire d'autre.

Patron: D'accord. Je vous prends les lunnettes de soleil! Je les retourne aussitot que vous me payer!

J'avoue que c'est un peut idiotic de faire excursion sans monnaie... mais moi.... ai-je l'air d'un "deadbeat?"

Etais-ce necessaire pour le patron etre si impoli? Je n'ai pas vu I'affichement, dis donc! Quand meme!

Eh bien, sans mes lunnettes de soleil, je suis aller chercher un distributeur.

Mes enquetes en ce qui concerne les locations des banques distributeurs allaient biens. Tous le monde de qui je demande directions pour le distributeur etaients tres aimable.

J'ai trouver de la monnaie, et retourne a la cafe. J'ai payee le montant et le patron m'a retourne les lunnettes.

Ca y est!

Vraiment, la patron de la cafe etait un connard.

Le Patron: Symbole de l'esprit de St. Paul de Vence?

An verite, St. Paul de Vence ne vallait pas la peine. La petite ville me rappelle de Paris Hilton. "Fameuse a cause d'etant fameuse." En realite, c'est pas grand chose.
— in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.

Above: Cemetery. St. Paul de Vence. 28 July 2018.

Burial place of Marc Chagall.

St. Paul de Vence carries on the tradition of Chagall by being mainly a center for painters and galleries.

Image looks south towards the coast line.

You're supposed to be able to turn the other way form this spot to see the peaks of the Alps. But, not today given the cloud cover.