Menton Daily Photo

Cat in Castellar. ~ Chat à Castellar. 

The Fete de la Saint Barthelemy in Gorbio starts with the Blessing of the Animals.  Here Pere Guglielmi is blessing one of the beautiful...

I love the way Italians put chairs outside their houses to sit and pass the time of day with their neighbours.  Add bougainvillea, sunshi...

If a black cat crossing your path means bad luck, do two mean good luck?! ~ Si un chat noir traverse votre chemin c'est un signe ...

Another shot of the entrancing Igloo, the Cheshire cat, with his owner, my friend Manoj. They live in Gorbio village. ~ Une autre ph...

This is the adorable cat belonging to a friend who lives in Gorbio village. He reminds me of the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderl...

A bench outside a house in Gorbio makes a welcome place to rest for these visitors. It was the orange tones - the wall, the door, the c...

Cat on the rocks.  ~ Chat sur les rocher.

This lovely cat, Youpi, is curled up in a beautiful pot in the sunshine outside his house in the medieval village of Gorbio. ~ Ce b...

'The ideal of calm is in a sitting cat'   - Jules Renard 'L'idéal du calme est dans un chat assis. »

What is it about cats and motorbikes?  This cat, when he's not sleeping on the altar in Gorbio's church,  he's getting comf...

Black and white in the cemetery. ***** Noir et blanc dans le cimetière.

  We've met this lovely fat cat before. Opaque eyes so presumably he's blind but he gets around perfectly well in Gorbio villag...

Old vine, old gate and a lazy cat in Gorbio village. ***** Une vieille vigne, une ancienne porte et un chat paresseux dans le village...

Village cats are everywhere in Sainte Agnes, as in all the hill villages - no cars to run them over, for starters.  This lovely cat sits ...

This cat is telling me he has every right to drink out of the horse trough in Gorbio village. Of course he does! ***** Ce chat me dit...

An old galvanized bowl, outside the Restaurant Beausejour in Gorbio, once contained a mass of pansies. 'Pensee' also means a '...

This cat enjoys the sunshine in a beautiful old cart in the main square of Gorbio village. ***** Ce chat apprécie le soleil sur une...

Place de la Mairie, Gorbio You never know who you might meet behind a lampost ... ~~~~~ Vous ne savez jamais qui vous allez renco...

This man is often to be seen in the pedestrian street of Menton begging with his dog and his cat. He seems to have a relationship wit...