YOU’RE probably well-aware by now that AI is taking over the internet (and real life) and that it is becoming more and more difficult to believe your own eyes.
The call came in to the concierge at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc, the fabled luxury hotel on the French Riviera. It was spring 2007, and an assistant to Angelina Jolie said that Jolie and her fiancé, Brad Pitt, were seeking a sizable property in the South of France to rent.
There was something familiar and warm, freshness and cheerfulness, but also a lightness and harmony in the air in Saint-Tropez. Chic people walking around with raffia bags at the Sunday market, bougainvillea surrounding windows all over the city, pines and cypress, and the endless singing of cicadas ...
When thinking of the South I always picture sunny landscapes, pink hours by the beach, dîners en plein air on the terrace. Last August I spent only a few days in the south and I didn’t get a chance to visit all the places I wanted to see so much.
There are very few places that evoke chic summer style quite like Nice, with its long palm tree-lined Promenade des Anglais where one can wander all day along the breezy cafés, parasols in pastel shades and crystal clear Mediterranean waters...
