Today's story, told in pictures......
The French don't use ice in drinks. This is what happened when a table mate asked for ice in their drink at breakfast - a bowl of ice!
Art outside Fragonard. They used to use the copper pots to make fragrance, but discontinued and turned them into art. Side note: I haven't been able to capture half the beautiful art I've seen. It's everywhere.....
The "nose" station. Perfume bottles lined up like a pipe organ, with a wall of more bottles behind. Very mad-scientist-y.
Wall of fragrance
No matter where you are, you'll always need a can of WD-40. :)
Our turn! Time to make our own perfume.
Tracy, myself and Judy with our creations.
The three notes you started with - base, middle and high. We mixed these together to create our own scent.
This is our whole group.
View of Grasse from the back of the cathedral (next few pictures). So pretty!
One of the cathedrals in Grasse. All stone, with beautiful paintings from Ruben. Architecture always amazes me. The entire building was built from stone, something we would never have the patience for today....
Grasse was celebrating the Festival of Roses, so there were pink umbrellas (signifying roses, I guess?) all over the main shopping / entertainment area.
The second part of the adventure. Our tour lead told us he thought he knew of a place that served escargot, and he was going to go in search of it. We were welcome to join if we wanted. Well, I had never had escargot, so.....
I liked it! Several others told me they had never seen it served that way before - out of its shell and baked into a crispy puff pastry. Very yummy, would try it again.
My main dish - bolognese gnocchi. Three of us ordered this, and three of us finished the entire bowl So good!
Our waiter thought we were absolutely hilarious, and was a total flirt. Ten women (four not pictured), and our tour guide had to leave for a while to guide the rest of the group somewhere before he joined us. Did I mention it was in a lower part of the restaurant where Google translate didn't work? Only one of us spoke French (from Canada), and I spoke enough to be dangerous. We were all laughing.
Another quirky piece of architecture. Never seen a door knocker like this in America.....
Y'all, someone explain this to me. Look at the width of the building. It appeared to be a real building, but about 10ft wide.
More umbrella shots.....
See ya later, Grasse!
Hahaha, I’m curious if the building was really as narrow as it looks! I guess they make good use of limited flat ground while giving as many apartments as possible a view of the valley or sea. Nothing says adventure like visiting Grasse for the perfume and leaving with snail breath instead 😂. Looks like lots of fun!
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