Ah, the glorious French Riviera and warmly inviting Mediterranean Sea in nearly autumnal September. Hard to beat.
Vibrant Nice cafes keep the rue de France lively beyond midnight and today I take a group from San Diego on a Blue Walk (www.thebluewalk.com) around the Cap d’Antibes. We’ll go past the Nomade sculpture in the port, into the city walls for a visit to the market, along the ramparts past the Picasso Museum, to the Bacon restaurant to see my old owner friend and swimming buddy Etienne Sordello, for a drink on La Garoupe Beach that Gerald Murphy raked when the Hemingways and Fitzgeralds came for a visit, along the seaside path to the Hotel du Cap….and we’ll end, or I will anyway, with a dip in the sea in Juan-les-Pins. Then dinner with my pals Charles & Inger Eisenhour in the cobblestoned old town of Nice.

Saturday its the Lerins Island of Sainte Marguerite off Cannes (the Man in the Iron Mask fort) and Sunday a meditative river picnic with my friends Alison Prideaux and Tessa Nelson in Pont-sur-Loup.

Walking Around the Cap d'Antibes

The "Nomade" sculpture.

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About Joel

Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."