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Cruelles de Ville

Septe­ge­nar­i­ans peruse antiques in the mar­ket at the Cours Soleya, Nice. The furs, dia­monds and croc­o­dile– and snake-skin acces­sories are real, as is the blonde hair (although that may not be their own). I fol­lowed these ladies and hid behind an arrange­ment of clothes to catch them with my zoom lens.
The image screams lux­ury and decadance,

My kingdom for a horse…

For those of you who watch Heroes, Ven­timiglia will be an Italo-American, all-flying, all-teleporting, multi-purpose dream­boat called Milo, who sports  a razor-sharp jaw and flaw­less skin. For the rest of you, it’s a one-horse town on the Franco-Italian bor­der that, at some point in his­tory, lost its horse.
Two pieces of knowl­edge prove invalu­able when vis­it­ing Ven­timiglia

Blue Bush

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Ribbed..for extra sensation

No, not to con­doms with a built-in gasp fac­tor (in case the con­tents don’t, er, hit the spot)…but Rigid Inflat­able Boats, a fleet of which hur­tles up and down the Thames daily with con­sign­ments of cor­po­rate fun­sters and wide-eyed tourists.
Crewed by a team of weath­ered charm­ers sport­ing the squinty, caus­tic expres­sions worn by Cor­nish smugglers, commentary in