Word: azure
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...Mediterranean coast, savvy travelers head southwest to the Atlantic and the relative quiet of the Bay of Biscay. There, in the region known as Basque Country, flat beaches give way to the soaring Pyrenees, which separate France and Spain. Those willing to forgo the glitz of the Cote d'Azur will be rewarded with splendid outdoor activities, including some of the best fly fishing to be found...
...doctors were in again this year, at the 56th Cannes Film Festival. Outside, nature paraded 12 days of gorgeous weather and even more gorgeous strollers down the C?te d'Azur's Croisette. Inside the Grand Palace, directors had their minds on apocalypse: in the Palme d'Or winner, Gus Van Sant's Elephant, an ordinary day in an Oregon high school erupts into massacre, Columbine-style. In Lars von Trier's Dogville, which had all the early buzz but left without any prizes, a beautiful stranger (Nicole Kidman) takes a load of abuse in a Colorado town, then, like...
worldairportguide.com A handy primer on airports in more than 50 countries. Each description includes a map of the airport terminals and other details, like how to find long-term parking near Larnaca International in Cyprus and where to hold a videoconference at Nice--Cote d'Azur Airport on the French Riviera...
...Cook began chartering trains to take Britain's working class at reduced fares to temperance meetings within the country. By the 1860s Cook was selling tours to continental Europe, and by the start of the 20th century even the grandest hotels on the newly named Côte d'Azur were doing deals with the English entrepreneur. A century later 2 million travelers - half from outside France - descend on the Riviera as August begins and hotels from Menton to Théoule proclaim they are complet (full). The history of Nice, affectionately charted by Robert Kanigel in High Season...
Luck--and a yachtsman's robust health--granted Signac some 40 years more than Seurat got. But he never painted better than he did in the late 1880s and early 1890s. His best pictures of the Cote d'Azur--of Cassis, of St.-Tropez--possess a wonderful rigor, density and subtlety of color. The danger inherent in pointillism was that all those microdots, if their tonal relations were not perfectly controlled, could look like a bad case of measles. In his middle years Signac almost always avoided this. The seascapes become what they are meant to be: a vibration...