Antibes

Antibes, between Cannes and Nice, is another place I visited while Alice Wang was hard at work.

Here’s Fort Carré, a recently-restored medieval fortress that used to house soldiers.

Pathway around the fort.

View from the fort.

The park around the fort.

This is a statue entitled “Nomad” on the Bastion Saint-Jaume. It’s a person, kneeling down facing the ocean, and the front is open, so you can walk inside and partake of the view from within. The entire sculpture is made of letters that don’t spell anything.

And the real highlight: the marché provençal. Besides the standard ware, like fish, meats, breads and cheeses, we have everything shown below, and then some. You usually don’t think of produce as being gorgeous, but in Provence, that’s exactly what it is.

Many, many kinds of salt.

Olives (and tapenades!).

Herbs and spices.

Purple artichokes.

Sickly-sweet candied fruit.

Coeur-de-boeuf tomatoes (taken in Toulon).