Menton Daily Photo

Dusk. Pigeons roosting at the foot of the Old Town.

When a horse is being presented to the judges, there is always a handler outside the ring with a plastic bag on the end of a flexible pole. ...

This is the filly that slipped her halter - please read yesterday's post. It took a while for her handler and others to get a halter ont...

Thirty seconds after the photo (below) was taken, this beautiful filly, who belongs to a Saudi Prince, slipped her halter. Notice, in the ...

This beauty waits in the holding ring.

The Arabian horses were in Menton recently for the prestigious Mediterranean & Arab Countries Arabian Horse Championship show. I think t...

Moules! Empty mussel shells at Restaurant le Balico in Menton. They were so good! The shells appear to be black until you take a flash ...

Once a week I go to see Bruno, my kiné - ( kinésithérapeute = physiotherapist). I lie on the massage table, look up and there is this p...

Dark into light. A passageway in the Old Town of Menton.

One of our fellow bloggers is Amir in Iran ( Tehran Live ). Following the recent elections and after the 17th June, his blog was blocked an...

A zoomed shot of the medieval village of Gorbio taken from the cemetery.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. ~Joan Baez Fête...

We're almost at the end of our 10 kilometre run around the beaches. Today, a tribute to the running shoes and those tired feet inside th...

Notice the girl in the lower photograph - she's late on the podium and she's wearing black tennis shoes. You see her in yesterday&#...

The Pom Pom Girls cheer the runners as they depart and later, they dance on a podium to welcome them home. In the background, you see the Ho...

Woolite, the sheep, is Team Mascot of Les Foulées Roquebrunoises - a great group of runners from Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. She is never on a l...

After the race some of the runners needed an osteopath. The team, working in a tent, were kept busy for hours.

Refreshments - and camaraderie.

Agony! The last of the runners stagger home. Paper cups litter the road but somehow they avoid them.

Watch the girl on the left. She's brilliant at handing out bottles of water to the needy runners as they approach the finish line - she...