tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83611776789191421832024-03-13T19:20:01.668-07:00Small Fish in the Big TacoThis blog used to be about living in Mexico City and travelling throughout Mexico, but I have now moved to the French Riviera, living in Nice and working in Monaco.....Can the simple life be found here?? I will try and find out....Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255193476024745869noreply@blogger.comBlogger540125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8361177678919142183.post-82360732426025059472015-04-04T03:23:00.000-07:002015-04-04T03:23:06.493-07:00Shadow Shot Sunday 221 - Nice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy Easter everyone!! Here is the view from the balcony of my apartment here in Nice where I have lived for almost three years, but I am on the move again.....After a decade of continuous living overseas first in Mexico City, then in Nice, and at least two decades of globetrotting, living and working in Canada, Australia, and travelling extensively through Asia, North, Central, and South America, Europe and Australasia, I am going HOME - yes moving back to LONDON in JULY 2015. As I am also planning to give up teaching after over three decades at the chalkface and search for a new direction, the big word for 2015 is CHANGE. Here is a shadowy corner of my apartment here in Nice which will only be my corner for the next three months.....</div>
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What changes are you planning for 2015?? Plus a question for bloggers - how easy is it to blog from your own hometown?? In the meantime check out other shadow shots from around the world by clicking<a href="http://shadowshotsunday2.blogspot.com/"> HERE for Shadow Shot Sunday. </a>Enjoy!!</div>
Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255193476024745869noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8361177678919142183.post-21992978023890123902015-03-29T06:06:00.000-07:002015-03-29T06:06:22.126-07:00Shadow Shot Sunday 220 - Pietrasanta, Italy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well this is the view!! Pietrasanta a stunning find not far from Pisa in Tuscany - understated and little visited, it is a beautiful spot with many studios, galleries, and art exhibitions.....and this grand piazza. For more shadow shots click <a href="http://shadowshotsunday2.blogspot.com/">HERE for Shadow Shot Sunday.</a> Enjoy!!</div>
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Cast by the rather spectacular equine sculptures that form the exhibition "Lapidarium" by a Mexican artist in the central piazza of Pietrasanta,Tuscany in Italy. A tiny place where Michelangelo and other heavyweight artists cast their amazing sculptures with fine marble quarried from the nearby Carrera hills. Today there are also bronze casting foundries for artists like Columbian Fernando Botero who also has a studio here. And looking at the sheer beauty of the place who can fail to understand their choice off location??</div>
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Strong sunlight in February hits the facade of the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea where currently a fascinating exhibiton "Pop Art : East meets West" is currently displayed. Don't miss it if you are in town!</div>
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Inside the funky UNESCO building, Paris where I recently accompanied students to a Model United Nations conference....<br />
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As well as the amazing exterior of retro architecture and stylish James Bondesque interior....<br />
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....Check out the view from the canteen on the seventh floor where we ate lunch every day!!<br />
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For more shadow shots this week, click <a href="http://shadowshotsunday2.blogspot.com/">HERE for Shadow Shot Sunday</a> - Enjoy!Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255193476024745869noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8361177678919142183.post-68942676139281306432014-11-29T16:11:00.001-08:002014-11-29T16:13:58.589-08:00Shadow Shot Sunday 216 - Nice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Shooting straight into the light in the Paillon Park, Nice creates some dramatic shadows on a November day when the sky was the bluest of blues......For more shadow shots from around the world, click<a href="http://shadowshotsunday2.blogspot.com/"> here for Shadow Shot Sunday.</a>...Enjoy!</div>
Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255193476024745869noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8361177678919142183.post-58469994037820392852014-11-22T03:06:00.002-08:002014-11-22T03:06:24.565-08:00Imperia - A day out at the olive oil festival<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Don't hesitate to visit if you get the chance - it is only one hour from Nice by car, or 40 minutes on the train from Ventimiglia....Enjoy!!</div>
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You can always rely on Italy for an endless supply of photogenic washing lines complete with shadows......for more shadow shots this week, click <a href="http://shadowshotsunday2.blogspot.co.uk/">HERE for Shadow Shot Sunday.</a> Enjoy!!</div>
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A shadowy corner in the old Jewish Ghetto Quarter in Rome - Sant Angelo - which proved to be a delightful and charming neighbourhood to wander and browse....for more shadow shots this week, click <a href="http://shadowshotsunday2.blogspot.com/">here for Shadow Shot Sunday</a> - Enjoy!!</div>
Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255193476024745869noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8361177678919142183.post-19795660316564976172014-10-11T10:15:00.000-07:002014-10-11T10:15:20.034-07:00Shadow Shot Sunday 213 - London<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Late afternoon shadows lengthen across the lawns of Marble Hill House in London - along the river between Richmond and Twickenham. For more shadow shots <a href="http://shadowshotsunday2.blogspot.com/">visit Shadow Shot Sunday </a>- Enjoy!Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255193476024745869noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8361177678919142183.post-83031523336182182802014-10-05T08:29:00.001-07:002014-10-05T08:30:27.878-07:00Autumnal Afternoon....Breil-Sur-Roya<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last weekend I was still sitting on the beach and swimming in the sea, but this weekend the weather is starting to change, so I decided to head for the hills and look for some Autumnal beauty....</div>
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Such beauty was not hard to find up in the Roya valley in a little town called Breil - a centre for hiking, rafting and canyoning in the mountains. As you can see the setting is very pretty and this is matched by some stunning baroque architecture....</div>
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Is there anything more serene than sitting on a sundrenched beach under a sunshade looking out to sea?............For more shadow shots click <a href="http://shadowshotsunday2.blogspot.com/">here for Shadow Shot Sunday</a> - Enjoy!</div>
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First founded in 1050AD by one of the Counts of Ventimiglia, prospering as part of the Republic of Genoa from the 13th century onwards, the development of Bussana Vecchia was halted abruptly by an earthquake on 23rd February 1887. The village was destroyed and abandoned....</div>
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The new village of Bussana was resituated at sea level two years later and the old village lay deserted and forgotten up on the top of the hill....until Clizia a potter and painter from Turin came here in 1959. He founded the International Community of Artists together with the poet Giovanni Fronte and a painter Vanni Giuffre. Moving mountains of rubble and restoration of the least damaged buildings began, and soon artists from France, UK, Germany, Holland, Italy, and Austria joined the growing community of international artists - even though there was no water, electricity, and sewage.....</div>
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Although threatened evictions and stand-offs against the Italian government followed in the sixties, studios, workshops, and galleries were established amongst the ruins and are still present today - although the community is in constant flux with artists coming and going......</div>
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The most poignant ruin is that of the magnificent church built 1404 - 1652 and dedicated to St Egidio - over the years it changed from a modest structure to a Romanic church and finally to a magnificent Baroque church with columns, frescoes, stucco, and six chapels and altars built into the walls. Gerolamo Comanedi, a young artist from Lugano, worked there his whole life creating these amazing friezes, paintings and stuccoes succeeded by his nephew.....Now it is a magnificent ruin inhabited only by a magnificent rooster and a few chickens. </div>
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It is a fascinating section which traces London's riverside history and industry through Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, Deptford, and Greenwich passing by famous London landmarks such as the Dome, Cutty Sark and Emirates cablecar, as well as churches, statues, and classic vistas across the Thames to London Docklands.</div>
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Finding a great spot for a cup of tea with a view is always part of my daytrip summer sojourns up in the mountains around Nice - and this cafe in the delightful medieval village of Saorge with its antique tea-set was just perfect....</div>
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Here is the charming village of Saorge nestled in the green hills of the Roya valley, and wandering around the quiet, narrow streets, be prepared to be astonished by the resplendent architecture and setting at every twist and turn...</div>
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Whenever it gets too hot and humid or too busy and crowded down on the coast of the Riviera, it becomes time to head for the hills - and one such perfect escape is into the Esterel - a National park in the Massif de l'Esterel....</div>
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The Massif de l"Esterel, with its characteristic richly red rocks, stretches West from Cannes and Mandlieu to St Raphael and Frejus - an area of volcanic rocks with porphyry giving the rocks its distinctive colour. It is an area of outstanding natural beauty, and the perfect place for a peaceful walk....</div>
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They are sculptures by "Rabarama" - the pseudonym of Italian contemporary artist Paola Epifani from Rome who was exhibiting at galeries Bartoux in Cannes during the recent Film Festival....</div>
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Her work is characterised by these large sculptures of posed figures - men, women and strange hybrid creatures whose skin is decorated and patterned with symbols, letters, designs, and hieroglyphs...</div>
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Tuscany is well known for all its treasure-houses of art, but a little off the beaten track I discovered a tiny town in Tuscany with big, big art. Pietrasanta is a little place on the coast between La Spezia and Pisa with one large piazza and duomo, and a long, long tradition of art....</div>
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Currently on offer is the grand exhibition entitled "Lapidarium" by Mexican sculptor Gustavo Aceves consisting of huge installations of horses in bronze on huge slabs of local marble on display throughout the town. There are many galleries, artist studios, bronze foundries and studios where sculptors can cast their works in marble - a tradition first started here by Michelangelo...</div>
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Many artists and sculptors have moved here or have a studio here - one such being the Colombian artist Botero who reputedly likes to hang out at the bar Serendipity on the piazza, and celebrated his 80th birthday here two years ago with a grand exhibition of his work. His "warrior" still stands in one of the piazzas.....</div>
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In the small church named Misercordia are two comic murals by Botero - one of Heaven and one of Hell - the one of Hell, whereby Botero casts himself as the Devil, is particularly striking in its iconography... notice the detail of Adolf Hitler who is burning in Hell (bottom right)...</div>
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I thoroughly enjoyed my day in Pietrasanta and will keep an eye out for forthcoming exhibitions - who indeed can resist a place which welcomes you as soon as you leave the train station with this cool "polo mint" sculpture in marble by a Japanese artist...it is definitely a place to which I would love to return soon...</div>
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Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255193476024745869noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8361177678919142183.post-62687896897794107902014-05-14T13:39:00.002-07:002014-05-14T13:41:30.595-07:00Step Back in Time......Peille Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of the most delightful aspects of living in Nice and the Alpes-Maritimes is that once you have explored all the beauty of the coast, nipped frequently into Italy, and done that glamorous jet-setting thing of breakfasting in France, lunching in Monaco, and dining in Italy, it is time to head for the hills.....</div>
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Exploring these villages in the arriere pays (back country) is a sheer delight as you walk the cobbled lanes, follow the twisting alleys, emerge into the atmospheric squares...and just quite happily while away an afternoon.....</div>
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Peille is only half an hour from Nice - Take the 116 bus from Vauban Bus Station - Enjoy!!</div>
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If you get the chance don't miss out on the joy of village hopping in the Cinque Terre region of Italy - a group of 5 beautiful perched cliff top villages which can easily be visited in just one day - either by train or by boat. Unfortunately the beautiful coastal path is still closed after the devastating storms, landslides and flooding of 2011, but the higher mountain paths are now open for hiking. Here are the famous five from East to West.....</div>
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You can eat extremely well in each village - the seafood and local wine are both delicious, plus there is always a cliff edge bar with a stunning sea vista for that early evening aperitvo - namely a glass of chilled prosecco - Cheers!!</div>
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The temperature reached 22 degrees centigrade last Sunday afternoon in the beautiful sleepy Riviera resort of Menton famed for its microclimate and hours of sunshine......Consequently everyone was out soaking up the sunshine...</div>
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For more shadow shots this week, click <a href="http://shadowshotsunday2.blogspot.com/">HERE for Shadow Shot Sunday. Enjoy!</a></div>
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There's a very good reason why the French Riviera is called the "Cote D'Azur" and on the last day of March, the blue was certainly back in all its glory.....</div>
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You can see why these beautiful blues inspired artists who flocked to paint the light here, be it Picasso...<br />
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Isn't it spectacular?? For more shadow shots this week, click <a href="http://shadowshotsunday2.blogspot.com/">HERE for Shadow Shot Sunday</a>. Enjoy!<br />
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<br />Catherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255193476024745869noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8361177678919142183.post-25036703646793487232014-03-29T06:24:00.000-07:002014-03-29T06:24:05.470-07:00Shadow Shot Sunday 208 - Cuneo, Italy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These shadow black hands reaching across the street to greet their neighbours in a tiny back alley in the Italian town of Cuneo intrigued me when I stayed there overnight on route to Turin. I have no idea of their origin or significance but they seem such a lovely gesture of neighbourliness - Does anyone know any more about these hands?? For more shadow shots this week, click <a href="http://shadowshotsunday2.blogspot.com/">HERE for Shadow Shot Sunday.</a> Enjoy!!</div>
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