2004.02.28 Le Chateau La Napoule

This is the Chateau La Napoule, which is up the street from my hotel. It's an art museum (or something) now. I didn't go inside because I was getting hungry, but I did walk around the outside of it, as you're about to see.

And now I've crossed the street and realize this thing is big. It's not just that tower.

Ok, the picture is too small, but the carvings on that drain thing are friggin' creepy.

The beach! And lots and lots of boats (very expensive yacht-like boats).

I was trying to take a picture of my shoe in the sand, but I'm a horrible photographer, so you get the sand. Lucky you!

I half-expected to see a couple reenacting Romeo & Juliet here.

No comment... Everything here is gorgeous (that's an exaggeration, right by the arena, there's an ugly dog and some pretty ugly shops, but that's it. even the old people are gorgeous).

That thing on the spit, next to the sailboat, it looks like a lifeguard chair, but I'm almost 100% sure it's a little lighthouse.

See? Friggin' gorgeous.

God likes the next town over, whatever it is. Why did they get sun this morning and not us?

Oh, look, there's our sun.

I expected to see Jeremy Irons and Robert Deniro dressed like Jesuits come around the corner. They didn't, but another gorgeous old couple DID... but not dressed like Jesuits.

I love watching waves breaking...

And now you can imagine you're watching them too.

You have no idea how many pictures I took trying to get a picture of the spray.

Out of all those pictures I took, I got exactly two pictures of spray.

Ok, three...

I know it looks like the guy kicked the ball, but he didn't. He was chasing it down because his little boy (maybe 4, made me homesick) kicked it to him and missed.

There was a wedding somewhere this morning, but I couldn't figure out where the wedding it was. It was a phantom wedding.