Day 2565 (Sunday) 16th June 2024

This is Paloma beach in Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat

and this was the Crème festival last night, which only kept Huw awake until 1am!

 

There was another cruise ship in the bay today and the weather was lovely.

Our new geraniums are coming along nicely, they are such a lovely colour.

We went up to the top road to have lunch in our favourite roadside café, the Cabana and naturally I took the same old photos of the wonderful view.

 

Quite a few tourist buses parked near the café to let the passengers take photos but didn’t stop, they were probably on their way to Eze Village. The music they were playing in the café was great, all the best of the 70s, 80s and 90s, we were in our element. When we finished we went down to get some petrol and saw that there were lots of yachts in the bay.

Our next stop was Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat to see the classic motorbikes.

I spotted these flowers and my App tells me they are Oakleaf Hydrangea.

This is the programme for the Retro Motorcycle Classic

From Saturday June 15th to Sunday June 16th 2024.

Price: Free entry.

For this month of June dedicated to traditions and heritage, a passionate Saint-Jeannois, Pascal Bognitcheff with his association Pantai d'engin and the collaboration of the municipality wishes to pay tribute to the motorcycle heritage from the 1900s to the 80s.

On this occasion, the Théâtre sur la Mer will be transformed into an open-air museum with nearly 80 collector's motorcycles which will be presented there, a motorcycle parade in the village and a competition will complete this weekend which will delight fans of old mechanics. .

An exhibition of paintings and sculptures around the world of motorcycles will also be held inside the Les Néréides space, also coupled with an exhibition of old bicycles. 

Programme 

Saturday June 15th
8:30 a.m. Arrival of motorcycles at the Théâtre sur la Mer
From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. | Opening to the public of the open-air motorcycle exhibition and the exhibition of art and old bicycles at the Les Néréides space
11 a.m. Inauguration followed by a welcome drink under the pergola of the Théâtre sur la Mer

Sunday June 16
From 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Opening to the public of the open-air motorcycle exhibition and the exhibition of art and old bicycles at the Les Néréides space.
From 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Parade in the village
4:30 p.m. Awards.

The music they were playing was also old stuff in English – what a treat!

After looking at all the motorbikes we had a beer in the Seaside Café to wait for the parade which was due to start at 2.30. it was very pleasant and summer is almost upon us.

At about 2.20 people started getting on bikes and starting them up and it sounded really good – I’m sure it’s not exactly green but it was good. 

They set off to parade the town.

When all the excitement was over we made our way back to Kisbee 2 and saw this poster saying that the tram from Nice used to go to Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat - why on earth did they take it away?  

Huw used his translation App and this is what it said…

Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
It was in 1864 that the train arrived in Nice and in 1868 that it was extended to Beaulieu.
It will never reach Saint-Jean because the station requested at the entrance to the peninsula will not be retained.
Before 1900, a stagecoach service provided the connection from Nice to Saint-Jean.
From 1907, following the creation of the current avenue Denis Séméria, the tramway finally linked Nice to Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat via Mont-Boron and Villefranche.
The tram then took the “new” road, passing in particular in front of the Villa Les Cèdres, then in front of the Town Hall to finish its journey on the Place des Cars (current Place Clemenceau).
In 1931, a coach service, considered faster and more comfortable, definitively replaced the use of the tram in the town.

We headed back to the port to take yet more photos…

A new statue has appeared as is called La Meduse des Voyageurs, which translates to

The Travellers’ Jellyfish.