15/02/09
Today we had a planned excursion to two nearby towns. We met early at the train station to take the 5 minute train to the first town, Beaulieu. In beaulieu there is a cool villa made to look Greek (Villa Kerylos), funded by some rich people (the Rothschilds?) as a vacation home. Beaulieu means beautiful place in French, and it totally was! I can see why everyone (including celebrities) wants to live on the Cote d’Azur. After we toured around the house, we started our walk to St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. This is where the Villa Ephrussi is located, a house owned by the Rothschild family. The villa is also located on the water, like Villa Kerylos, in a beautiful location on a hilltop and the villa itself is amazing. We ate lunch in the tea room, which was so cool. Then we toured the villa and its extensive gardens! There were gardens of all types – Japanese, Florentine, rose, etc. After the villa tour, we walked to the water in St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, along a path made into the stone cliffs along the water. This was pretty cool; cool views as well as cool in the way that there was a path right there for everyone to just walk along the water on. From the beach we could even see Italy! And we were close enough that everyone received text messages from their phone providers saying “welcome to Italy” even though we were still in France!
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