Menton Daily Photo

Absolutely the best courgette is this one - long and skinny and with beautiful flowers - and called trompette . It's more dense than th...

Quite a few streets in the Old Town were dangerous to walk on. Roads dug up - perhaps to install drainage - wobbly planks of wood cover th...

It's one thing to live in the Old Town of Ventimiglia - it's quite another to dig up the roads. The passageways and streets are nar...

Whilst I often cross the Italian border to shop in Ventimiglia - they have a great market - it wasn't until last week that I walked up t...

A couple of years ago a friend gave me this nesting box which I fixed under a corner of the terrace roof. I didn't think it was a '...

Two weeks ago I was walking on Cap Martin and saw this floating blue mass of dead jellyfish near the rocks (see last two shots) . On Sunday...

What's so incongruous about this sign is that it's at a window high up on the left-hand side of this medieval square in Dolceacqua, ...

On the weekend, Menton went to town with a nautical festival - high-speed racing boats and a great atmosphere. On the Sablettes beach, enth...

We are way up the top of the Old Town of Ventimiglia where many people still do things the old way.

This enchanting child (and her father) wandered onto centre stage and so became part of the action for a brief moment in time. Last day at t...

Here are some of the younger performers having great fun on bicycles, bouncing on balls and running around with the Italian and French flags...

Faces - ready to go. The girl above is about to put a piece of chewing gum in her mouth. The girl on the left - a cigarette. The girls bel...

This piece of street theatre is about a girl (the actress in blue) who is teased/bullied/ostracised by the confident girls in the last photo...

This young girl sat on the bollard for well over an hour, sometimes texting, sometimes just staring into space, yet never seeing - always to...

Somehow the teachers kept control of their adolescent students. 'No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the suc...

'Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.' ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

'Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.' ~ Alfred Hitchcock

This is the ending of a piece of theatre about the Mediterranean and about the sailors and fishermen who have died in it. It was in Italian...

Each year in May around 1000 children and young people descend on Menton to entertain - and make us think - with street theatre - song, danc...

Take a Provence bowl with a raised pattern in the base. Place within several Menton clementines. Wait a few days - perhaps a week or so - ...