Unusual Things That We See Here in France

There are always interesting things to see here in France every day . And as Pa and I travel about we are always looking for these things to photograph for you.

These papier mache figures were in the window of the local tourist office advertising a Fete that was to be held in the town that week.

When we were in Antibes yesterday these toy cars were outside a toy shop in the old town. They were advertising the shop and what was inside.
This sculpture of a Unicorn is at the front of the Oceanic Museum in Monaco. This is a sculpture by the very famous English artist Damien Hirst. He loves to shock people with his art and as you can see he has shown the muscles of the Unicorn as well. He thinks that showing the muscles will shock but I don't agree.
Then lastly there is this photo of this cute but ugly French Bulldog who was travelling past us in the car a few weeks ago. They had to stop at the lights and Pa got this great photo of the dog . He was enjoying the celebrity and the fresh air.

Boats and Babies in Baskets

A few weeks ago in the big town near here there was a weekend of Speed Boat racing .

The boats had to race around buoys on the sea for a number of circuits before a winner was known.

The harbor area in the town was crowded with people on bikes and on foot who wanted to see all the noisy speed machines.

The speed boats had to be lifted by a crane onto the water and it was a tricky thing to do as the boats were very heavy and there were many people crowding around where the crane was.

There were adults, children and dogs all eager to see how they get the boats onto the water and also all the men were having a good long look at the boats and probably wishing that they could be one of the drivers speeding through the water!

There were boats of all shapes and colors and there were even small remote controlled boats that had been built by men who loved to do that sort of thing and they were all together in a tent down on another beach where they put their boats on the water and directed them with the remote controls. They had a lot of fun doing that and it was certainly less noisy than the speed boats.

After we had looked at all the different boats and watched some of them race on the sea we walked back to our car through the market . At the end of the market we saw this cut little dog -a long haired chihuahua-sitting happily in its owners shopping bag while she bought her vegetables. So cute and unlike the speed boats she didn't make a sound!

Dogs Where I Live

Where Pa and Ya Ya are living now in France we are surrounded by lots of dogs every day.

They live here in the house with Jilly and she looks after them while their owners have gone away. Sometimes for a few days and other times for two months. They sleep in the house at night with Jilly and she has the little dogs in the bathroom ! They sleep on their doggy beds and Jilly shuts the gate so that they don't wander in the night.

Her two dogs Beau and Mia sleep in the lounge room as they are family members and have more rights than the others but when there are big dogs staying they share with Beau and Mia quite happily.

There have been some cute little dogs staying here over the past three weeks and I have put a photo on this blog so that you can see how cute they are.

They all love Pa as he pats them too much and sometimes they get jealous of each other and bark and growl . But they are mans best friend and love company and being given attention.

When their owners come to collect them we are all sad to see them go but a few of them keep coming back so we are happy when that happens.

Its much better for them to be looked after at someones home while their owners are away than being put into a Kennel without the fun of running free and playing with other dogs as they do here at Jilly's.