In the poster, there is only one building between the iconic Carlton and Martinez hotels. In real life, shot from Peregrinus at anchor, these two are a couple of streets away from each other.
But then again, what would a place like Cannes be without a dose of artfulness, a bit of a sleigh of hand?
iPhone 6 Plus. And never mind the fact that, in Cannes, there's usually a crew to drive the tender.
Leica Typ 114. 8:29 PM, 26 May 2016.
This area of the Roman Provincia Nostra was well-populated and accessible by a major highway –the Via Iulia Augusta passed thru on its way from Antibes to Fréjus. Unlike those towns, however, Cannes did not exist as a city, but merely as farms and factories along the coast.
With the collapse of security after the fall of the Empire, the area became largely depopulated, with a nadir in 891 when the Saracens invaded and held the territory for 80 years. After William the Liberator kicked out the Moors in 972, reconstruction began, and Cannes proper first appears in a document from 1030.
It is largely an accident that turned Cannes into what it is today. In 1834, the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, Henry Brougham, was taking his daughter to Italy to take care of her respiratory ailment; but the Italian border, at Nice back then, was closed off because of the cholera. Backtracking along the road, he spent a few nights at Cannes, and liked it so much, he built a magnificent villa here and launched it as an internationally fashionable resort town.
Peregrinus at anchor in the Rade de Cannes in front of the Boulevard de la Croisette. 26 May 2016, Leica Typ 114.
Just arrived home from the PalmaVela 2016 regatta which ended Sunday, Magic Carpet 3, a Wally 100' and one the world's most famous racing boats, gets a thorough cleaning in the Vieux Port at St. Tropez: jacklines and foul gear gets hung out to dry in the foredeck, three large cases of all kinds of cleaners and soaps are brought dockside and onboard, wet-dry vacs and electric buffers are readied, and assorted mops, brushes and water-hoses lie about. When your racing crew is a couple of dozen sailors, it's probably not too hard to find a handful to clean up afterwards.
On Peregrinus, though, the sailing crew is down to two, so it's always quite a challenge for the Admiral to rope up cleaning crew after passages!
Check out the dodger on Magic Carpet 3: is it up to Bristol standards? St. Tropez waterfront, 13 May 2013. iPhone 6 Plus.
Saint-Tropez is a place of fancies and whims. One could strut ones' fashions on this dining table, or dance on it: steps are thoughtfully provided.
iPhone 6 Plus.
The Moors were kicked out of this region in 972, after almost a century of occupation. Nonetheless, this part of the old Roman Province remained generally depopulated because the Saracens continued to pirate and raid for the next half-millennium, and, not coincidentally, because Provence was passed along during that time from the German Holy Roman Empire to the Spanish Kingdom of Aragon, and finally to the French kings.
But under René, Count of Provence, a deal was struck in 1470 with a citizen of the Republic of Genoa: in exchange for defending the coast and building a fortress in St. Tropez, the Genoese would pay no taxes and largely self-rule. And so sixty Genoese families migrated to St. Tropez and since then the city had its own navy and army which over the following century fought off pirates, Turks, and Spaniards at various times. The city's privileges, eroded from time by the kings of France, were finally terminated under Louis XIV, in 1672.
To this day, many family names in the St Tropez cemetery, if not most, are clearly Italian.
A side wall in St Tropez, 13 May 2016. Peregrinus has anchored off for a couple of days. iPhone 6 Plus.
The Admiral and the Seaman went shopping for horses in Dourdan (Essone) with Jacqui and Adrian.
Jacqui testing a horse. Frame captured from video taken by the Seaman. iPhone 6 Plus, 21 March 2016
Adrian points out features of the extant features of the Cluniac church of Notre-Dame, consecrated by pope Pascal II in 1107, and the second largest church in Europe until the edification of Saint Peter's in Rome in 1506.
The 1429 siege of La Charité was Joan of Arc's sole military defeat, other than her final capture during the sortie at Compiègne.
With Jan and Jacquie. 19 March 2016.
