{"id":11256,"date":"2016-08-08T06:32:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T10:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=11256"},"modified":"2016-09-08T07:19:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T11:19:55","slug":"the-beautiful-french-riviera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=11256","title":{"rendered":"The Beautiful French Riviera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a fabulous time visiting with our French cousins: family bar-b-ques, seeing the sights, great meals, catching up on family gossip, visiting beautiful beaches and swimming in the azure Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9644.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11257\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9644.jpg\" alt=\"img_9644\" width=\"400\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fabienne and Cloe took us to their favorite beach on <em>Cap Croisette en\u00a0la Baie des Singes<\/em> (Monkey Bay). \u00a0We followed the narrow path along the stark rocky shore and swam in the cool blue water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9628.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11258\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9628.jpg\" alt=\"img_9628\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9650.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11259\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9650.jpg\" alt=\"img_9650\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On another day, Fabienne drove us to another favorite beach on the Cote d&#8217;Azur:<em> Lavandou<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9673.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11260\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9673.jpg\" alt=\"img_9673\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9690.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11261\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9690.jpg\" alt=\"img_9690\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first time I visited Cassis, almost 40 years ago, it was a small sleepy fishing village just outside Marseille. Today, it&#8217;s an upscale tourist destination with gorgeous Mediterranean homes scattered up the surrounding rocky hills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC_8003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11262\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC_8003.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_8003\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC_7976.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11263\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC_7976.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_7976\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC_8086.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11267\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC_8086.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_8086\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC_8000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11264\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC_8000.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_8000\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cloe joined us and Nicole drove along the back roads of Marseille to take a boat to see\u00a0the\u00a0<em>calanques\u00a0<\/em>of Marseille and Cassis<em>. \u00a0<\/em>These are the narrow steep-walled inlets which are characteristic of this region of the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC_8047.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11265\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC_8047.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_8047\" width=\"400\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9722.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11266\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9722.jpg\" alt=\"img_9722\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the boat ride, the girls went swimming at the beach and enjoyed gelato in the village. \u00a0Nicole and I sat and relaxed at the shore. What a wonderful lifestyle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a fabulous time visiting with our French cousins: family bar-b-ques, seeing the sights, great meals, catching up on family gossip, visiting beautiful beaches and swimming in the azure Mediterranean Sea. Fabienne and Cloe took us to their favorite beach on Cap Croisette en\u00a0la Baie des Singes (Monkey Bay). \u00a0We followed the narrow path [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11268,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256\/revisions\/11268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}