Europeats

Ira and Andy are driving around France and then taking a quick trip to Venice. We'll eat and drink and see wonderful stuff and tell you all about it along the way.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Architecture, painting, food and glorious light and water

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We have made it to the last three architectural biennales here in Venezia. The national pavilions are filled with weird, abstract and intell...

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Private tour through Castello and San Marco

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OK, we didn't tour the whole of these two sestiere, but it seemed like it! We took the vaporetto to the Arsenale where we met our guide,...

Friday, September 12, 2014

Clutch drive to Venezia

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Not much to post today, for reasons that will become clear, but here is the wonderful sunrise at Antibes as we drove to the airport. Once th...

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Eileen Gray's broken-down roof

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Our goal today was to see what we could of E1027, the house the designer Eileen Gray built with her lover in Roquebrune, which is just past ...

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Cocteau on the Cote

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After spending time in Cocteau's home town of Milly la Foret, we were eager to see more of his work here on the Côte d'Azur. Ira, of...

Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Picasso and the Hotel du Cap

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We got in the car first thing and drove up the coast to Antibes where we had found a modern parking garage for our Picasso adventure. I hate...

Monday, September 08, 2014

Fondation Maeght

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I'd never heard of these particular collectors, but Aime and Marguerite Maeght amassed an impressive collection of modern art that inclu...

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