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Today's column is dedicated to retro back to France - this time of rural France. Already we read of Iveta memories of Paris, now it will keep memories of the Cote d'Azur, Provence and Lyon arrived in Nice in the early evening.
Seasons change before my eyes during the journey by train from Paris. I met the family and the dog of my future colleague and mentor - K., thirty-something year old speech therapist, university lecturer and head of the clinical practice of students.
Accommodated me very sympathetic parents, whose house is called Villa "Souvenir" / memory /. At this stage I can not characterize the situation in the house, missing my experience and still do not know that light negligence, coziness, open windows, the aroma of lavender, lemon, olive oil and basil, are immutable characteristics of each Mediterranean home.
Already during the aperitif find that "the rich" to me in French, only the most essential words for eating and drinking, and no idea of culinary details and ingredients that every Frenchman holds so much. This weakness in expressing her I still have today and by all means avoid issues with descriptions of recipes and menus. I find also that Southerners speak very quickly, some words sound to me in Italian, colloquial style is generally quite different from the "classical" French, which arrive. People are welcoming, relaxed, "our" people. I do not have much time to figure out that I was on my "element".
Sumptuous dinner - salad with olives and lots of olive oil, a huge dish and sauce so and what, redolent of basil and garlic, lightly cote d armor sparkling wine, cheese and bread choice closure cognac for good digestion ... questions and answers, the Iron Curtain has two countries - and we are not aware of what is happening in the west, and they did not know what was going east ...
Show me pictures of them unique from the previous winter. Olive trees covered with snow. Were not seen snow mnoooogo cote d armor years. I realize that my journey into the exciting world of the Mediterranean, which starts from the Villa "Souvenir", will have to continue in the coming years.
Early the next morning, even with the opening cote d armor of the window, feel the sweet smell of mimosa. Bright flowers and shrubs in the yard. Located in one of the highest areas of the city that many other Mediterranean cities have tiers or terraces available. The sea is below blue is inimitable. Heaven is "clear", especially blue.
Landlady noticed my excitement and said that two days ago has passed mistral wind. It blows very strong, all harvested stands, dog K. "flown". After him, the sky and water become that color, which gave grounds to the coast called "Azure".
The city was created by masaliotite / Marseille / in the 4th century BC. Themselves are masalioti colony jewel of the Greek polis Fokea - a topic that excites me for years and brought me into Fokea / Foca now / in 2006 (The story of Iveta its journey to Foca). cote d armor After the Greeks came the Romans, followed by many centuries of invasions Arabs / Saracens / Pirates and then the story "attached" Nice to Provence, to the Savoy to the kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont and so until 1860, when the city was finally annexed to France.
First meeting with the Hotel "Negresco", named after its first owner - Romanian. The architect of "Negresco" is the Dutchman, in love with France, which has found its way into the history of many casinos and cabarets - in Paris, in the Riviera, Spain and so on. A
I'm Charming colors and architecture of the buildings - hotels, apartments and villas in the Rococo style of the Belle Epoque, most of them topped with luxurious vegetation, including palm trees. Front of the hotel playing trumpet Miles Davis / not live, of course, is placed colorful statue /.
Continue in the direction of the hill with Chateau cote d armor tower "Bellande" who do not attend cote d armor at this time / I'll go there in time to visit the cemetery where the mother died and his wife Anita Garibaldi, his remains were transferred to Rome in 30 years of the 20th century /. We enter the Old Town / Vieux Nice /,
starting from the "Cours Saleya", where this time there is a market for flowers and several stalls with antiques - is superb and I can not take my eyes off the huge cyclamen and unprecedented large colorful fish. Cote d'Azur has wonderful flora - fresh and colorful especially in March- May
Landlady introduced me to a shop and I bought three bags of lavender as a souvenir. I see beautiful baroque church cote d armor prefecture. Something like a mini sit square to draw me a piece of juice / socca / - a bakery specialties of Nice, sort of salty pancake non-realized-what-flour and olive oil, which is available in triangular or rectangular pieces. Shturkame the narrow streets, built so that two horses to pass. The houses are glued to each other / "for wind
Today's column is dedicated to retro back to France - this time of rural France. Already we read of Iveta memories of Paris, now it will keep memories of the Cote d'Azur, Provence and Lyon arrived in Nice in the early evening.
Seasons change before my eyes during the journey by train from Paris. I met the family and the dog of my future colleague and mentor - K., thirty-something year old speech therapist, university lecturer and head of the clinical practice of students.
Accommodated me very sympathetic parents, whose house is called Villa "Souvenir" / memory /. At this stage I can not characterize the situation in the house, missing my experience and still do not know that light negligence, coziness, open windows, the aroma of lavender, lemon, olive oil and basil, are immutable characteristics of each Mediterranean home.
Already during the aperitif find that "the rich" to me in French, only the most essential words for eating and drinking, and no idea of culinary details and ingredients that every Frenchman holds so much. This weakness in expressing her I still have today and by all means avoid issues with descriptions of recipes and menus. I find also that Southerners speak very quickly, some words sound to me in Italian, colloquial style is generally quite different from the "classical" French, which arrive. People are welcoming, relaxed, "our" people. I do not have much time to figure out that I was on my "element".
Sumptuous dinner - salad with olives and lots of olive oil, a huge dish and sauce so and what, redolent of basil and garlic, lightly cote d armor sparkling wine, cheese and bread choice closure cognac for good digestion ... questions and answers, the Iron Curtain has two countries - and we are not aware of what is happening in the west, and they did not know what was going east ...
Show me pictures of them unique from the previous winter. Olive trees covered with snow. Were not seen snow mnoooogo cote d armor years. I realize that my journey into the exciting world of the Mediterranean, which starts from the Villa "Souvenir", will have to continue in the coming years.
Early the next morning, even with the opening cote d armor of the window, feel the sweet smell of mimosa. Bright flowers and shrubs in the yard. Located in one of the highest areas of the city that many other Mediterranean cities have tiers or terraces available. The sea is below blue is inimitable. Heaven is "clear", especially blue.
Landlady noticed my excitement and said that two days ago has passed mistral wind. It blows very strong, all harvested stands, dog K. "flown". After him, the sky and water become that color, which gave grounds to the coast called "Azure".
The city was created by masaliotite / Marseille / in the 4th century BC. Themselves are masalioti colony jewel of the Greek polis Fokea - a topic that excites me for years and brought me into Fokea / Foca now / in 2006 (The story of Iveta its journey to Foca). cote d armor After the Greeks came the Romans, followed by many centuries of invasions Arabs / Saracens / Pirates and then the story "attached" Nice to Provence, to the Savoy to the kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont and so until 1860, when the city was finally annexed to France.
First meeting with the Hotel "Negresco", named after its first owner - Romanian. The architect of "Negresco" is the Dutchman, in love with France, which has found its way into the history of many casinos and cabarets - in Paris, in the Riviera, Spain and so on. A
I'm Charming colors and architecture of the buildings - hotels, apartments and villas in the Rococo style of the Belle Epoque, most of them topped with luxurious vegetation, including palm trees. Front of the hotel playing trumpet Miles Davis / not live, of course, is placed colorful statue /.
Continue in the direction of the hill with Chateau cote d armor tower "Bellande" who do not attend cote d armor at this time / I'll go there in time to visit the cemetery where the mother died and his wife Anita Garibaldi, his remains were transferred to Rome in 30 years of the 20th century /. We enter the Old Town / Vieux Nice /,
starting from the "Cours Saleya", where this time there is a market for flowers and several stalls with antiques - is superb and I can not take my eyes off the huge cyclamen and unprecedented large colorful fish. Cote d'Azur has wonderful flora - fresh and colorful especially in March- May
Landlady introduced me to a shop and I bought three bags of lavender as a souvenir. I see beautiful baroque church cote d armor prefecture. Something like a mini sit square to draw me a piece of juice / socca / - a bakery specialties of Nice, sort of salty pancake non-realized-what-flour and olive oil, which is available in triangular or rectangular pieces. Shturkame the narrow streets, built so that two horses to pass. The houses are glued to each other / "for wind
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