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Another beautiful day in the south of France, and it was time to explore a few places closer to where my friends live. Our first stop was
Musée Molinard, where we got a guided tour on the processes used by the perfumeries in France's perfume capital. It's amazing to find out the amount of flowers needed to distill the essence required to manufacture perfume. Unfortunately we did not have time to go through a few hours of putting together our customized scents, but I'm OK with that.
We didn't find the products at Molinard interesting, so we ended up hitting the the shop at
Fragonard. These guys are much better at packaging their products, and there was a constant stream of tourists coming in. We ended up buying a bunch of soaps to bring home.
Our last stop this morning was at
Champagne Senez to pick up some bubbly for tonight's World Cup match
. Madame offered us a glass of
Cristian Senez Carte Verte while we chatted and decided about what to buy.
After going back to pick up the rest of the gang, we set off for Saint-Paul de Vence for lunch at an institution.
La Colombe d'Or is an
auberge which began life as a cafe. Its claim to fame isn't the amazing food that they serve - although they do a half-decent job of cooking.
