Menton Daily Photo

Lunch in Bordighera Alta. ~ Déjeuner à Bordighera Alta.

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

The pretty restaurant 'Antica Trattoria Garibaldi' in Bordighera Alta. Note the wine corks piled up in a bowl. - Le joli rest...

We are in Italy today - in Bordhighera which is just across the border, beyond Ventimiglia. This narrow street, with just a sliver of ...

'I usually take a two hour nap from one to four.' ~ Yogi Berra ~~~~~ ' J'ai l'habitude de faire une sieste de deux heur...

Parasols reflected in the window of a beach hotel in Bordighera. ~~~~~ Des parasols qui se reflètent dans la fenêtre d'un hôtel de plage...

In a land where villages are built on many different levels - particularly the hill villages of France and Italy - fences, railings, walls -...

No wonder Italians always look so immaculate, so stylish - it all starts in childhood or more likely it's in their DNA. Take this little...

'If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.' ~ J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)...

This joyful lady is decorating her corner of the village with flowers for the following day's Fete Day. Later, like every Italian I'...

Climb up a narrow streets that widens at the top before it continues off to the right. Here, you'll find a bench on either side and the...

It was 11h.00 and the door to this restaurant was open. Note the corks you saw yesterday. Nathalie and I couldn't resist a peak. So pr...

Corks. Italian corks, of course. Tomorrow we'll see where I found these. 'There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread ...

Bordighera Alta. If you walk into a sunlit square and see this post office, you know immediately you will love this place. I did ... ~~~~~...

Bordighera is a seaside town just beyond Ventimiglia across the Italian border. It's known as the City of Palms and during Holy Week the...