194: Antibes and the Hotel Du Cap Eden Roc: from the 1000 places to see before you die book

It was a blustery day and the kitesurfers were out in force.

Antibes, described in the book 1000 places to see before you die as "one of the Riviera's great delights." It was a nice town...but like alot of these towns on the Cote D'Azure, they tend to blur from one to another and are riddled with some rather unattractive high rise, low development, apartments all along the coast.

Recommended in the book was the Musee Picasso. In 1946, so the book 1000 places to see before you die says, Picasso spent some of his happiest months in Antibes and the nearby Vallauris which is an art and crafts centre. Close to 300 paintings, ceramics, drawings and sculptures were bequethed to Antibes and are housed in the Chateau Grimaldi (which incidentally was the second Chateau Grimaldi I visited in as many days- the other one being outside Aix-en-Provence).

The town was rather cute...

Not done in the 1000 places to see before you die book however was a visit to the Restaurant de Bacon in the town (as we were full from the earlier meal at Mougins) and sadly, due to my father wearing shorts, we were denied entrance to the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc...so its a half tick this post!!

Should it be in the book....cant judge until Ive eaten at the restaurant and sipped champagne in the hotel bar!