Welcome to the French Riviera! Here's a local spot next to the International Dock on the Antibes Harbour. A fantastic spot for a basketball hoop, I loved this rustic setting - behind which sit some of the most luxurious private yachts in the world.

A smashed JCDecaux bill board with lovely Southern French blue sky and a picturesque palm tree.

I thought of Jeffrey Smart as I composed this shot, and subsequently edited it. All of his lines and colour and mildly abstract scenery exist around every corner in the south of France.

Here's the Antibes life boat, sadly in France it's almost completely funded by donation, and the crew are all volunteers. These guys are truly admirable, and a real boon to any recreational/commercial seafarers around Antibes.

Some of the curves around Monaco. An amazing place. I'll be travelling around there a bit, and uploading more images as my time here unrolls.

The view from our hotel room.

Monaco from the docks, with a splash of blue sky through the low fog over the principality of Monaco. This town fails to ever be anything less then spectacular.

Jaume Plensa's Sculpture 'Nomade' on the harbor walls in Antibes, this is a very successful and original sculpture, at day it faces the sea, at night it faces land, all with the aid of light. A fun game is to sit inside it and search for words... there aren't any.