Since we wanted to have the freedom to go wherever we wanted and we wanted to go down the coast and also inland where it's more Provencale, my cousin decided to rent a car. Renting a car in France is a little different than renting a car in the states. What we did was so cool! So my cousin is registered (online) with a service that rents all electric cars. The rentable cars are parked and plugged in at certain places all around town. So we just walked two blocks, unplugged the car and drove away. At the end of the day we just plugged it back in. It was so neat.
Looking down from the Ephrussi de Rothschild property, which is at the very top of the hill of the Cape, I spied this Villa. Who knows who lives there.....some fortunate soul...... To me, this was the ultimate. How I would love to live in this very spot...
The Ephrussi Villa itself was,of course, beautiful. It was a museum and set up to showcase Beatrice's many extravagant possessions - accouterments of her extravagant life style. Here are a couple of pictures of that aspect of the villa....but my favorite part was, of course, the gardens.
The Gardens......
In this picture, you can kind of see how hard the wind was blowing.
There were so many micro-climates as the garden wrapped itself around the top of this Cape.
You can see the Villa/Museum in the background in this one.
There was a series of these "dancing fountains" and when they came on, speakers hidden in the bushes started to play classical music pieces.
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