The night, in early May, that my girlfriend first saw Eze Village, it was late and foggy. Same as when I first saw it in 1994. Devoid of most tourists -- they'd left for the day -- and kind of eerie in the fog. As we walked around the now almost-deserted streets, she looked awestruck. And I remembered how I felt when I first saw it, the same way. <BR><BR>I was looking up something on Eze for her photographs right now -- the part about Nietzsche and "Also Sprach Zarathustra" -- and found this quote...<BR><BR>"The ruins of Eze, planted on a cone of rocks with a picturesque village in sugarloaf, attract of course everybody's attention. It is the most beautiful, the most complete and the most composed view point on the moyenne Corniche." -- George Sand

"Even the little children in Paris speak French." Mark Twain

While in a medieval market outside Agadir Morocco....."Yes all our meat here in Morocco still has the fur on it" and this is when I became a vegitarian....at least for the rest of that trip

Gertrude Stein on her hometown, Oakland, California: there is no there, there.<BR><BR>Charles de Gaulle on France: how can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?<BR><BR>George S. Kaufman: I like terra firma, the more firma, the less terra.<BR><BR>Fred Allen on California: a great place if you're an orange.<BR><BR>Erma Bombeck: Naples traffic isn't a condition. It's a war in progress.

"Are we there yet?"<BR><BR> Sorry, I had to do it!

I've posted this before, but I love it.<BR><BR>Writer Robert Benchley, upon arriving in Venice for the first time in the 1920s, sent the following telegram to his editor:<BR> Streets flooded. Please advise.<BR><BR>The other one I like is by Marcel Proust--<BR>"When I went to Venice, my dream became my address."

Capo: Where is Eze and what makes it so special?

Have a look at this, Sally<BR>http://www.eze-riviera.com/village/ang/mcorniche1.htm<BR>

Thanks, Shelia. <BR><BR>Sally, it's unique among perched villages in that part of Provence for being right above the Mediterranean (most perched villages are in the mountains behind the coast.) <BR><BR>Like St.Paul-de-Vence, it's very overrun with sightseers during the day but it's very peaceful -- and, in the fog, almost otherworldly (I'm lucky to have seen it that way twice) -- if you go early in the morning or late in the evening.