Wishes

I wish all of you the best of lucks in the world for the coming year. We all need it. Have a great one, whatever it may be.

Nietzsche Path

There is a hiking route named after the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in Eze, a picturesque hill-top village about 20 minutes from Nice. Nietzsche Path or Chemin de Nietzsche runs from the seaside train station of Eze-sur-Mer to Eze Village which is at 400 meters above the sea level. The legend has it that Nietzsche, an avid hiker, formed key ideas about his Zarathustra while walking along this path. Of course, nobody can say with any certainty that he actually hiked there.
When I was young, I read his books but I never finished them because my patience would usually run out halfway through. That was quite vexing to me because everybody seemed to say that Nietzsche was a "great" philosopher and I thought I would never discover "greatness" if I kept giving up reading him like this. I am now quite certain that I will never finish his books and, happily, that doesn't bother me anymore.

N.F. 25

The sunset over the Bay of Angels (la Baie des Anges) of Nice. The video has been cross-processed: it's not in natural colors.

N.F. 24

Death on Gambetta

We live just one street away from Gambetta Boulevard which is one of the busiest roads in Nice. It's lined with restaurants and shops and quite lively all day long. At night, however, as most businesses close early, it becomes nearly deserted. And every Nice resident knows that prostitutes - especially of African origin - work on Gambetta. Last Sunday one of them was killed in a violent car accident.
It appears that an 18-year-old high school student who was driving his father's car ran a red light at a crossing on Gambetta Boulevard and crashed into a police car parked at a corner. The impact of the collision was such that the police car flew over the sidewalk and slammed into a bank entrance, hitting and instantly killing a Nigerian prostitute who happened to be standing there at the moment. The high school boy was on his way back from a party and drunk. The accident occurred at 3:30 in the morning. (Three officers in the police car were seriously injured, while three occupants of the first car, all teenagers, fled the scene only to be caught two hours later by the police.)
The following day people put flowers and candles at the scence. When I passed there this afternoon, they were still there.

N.F. 23

Return to Little Cayolle

Last weekend we returned to Little Cayolle and saw the landscape which lies beyond the basin.