Cote d’Azur (3)

從Grasse離開之後，我們前往蔚藍海岸最知名的城市─坎城Cannes。

坎城電影節，或稱坎城影展（法語：Festival de Cannes），1939年創立，是國際上最有影響力的影展之一，與德國的柏林電影節、義大利的威尼斯電影節、加拿大的多倫多國際電影節以及捷克的卡羅維發利電影節是國際電影聯合會確定的國際五大電影節；是世界四大藝術電影展之一（德國柏林影展、義大利威尼斯影展、法國坎城影展、俄國莫斯科影展）。

坎城影展每年在五月中旬舉辦十二天左右，通常是五月中的某一個禮拜三開幕，隔一週的禮拜天閉幕。除了影片競賽外，市場展亦同時進行。

其中最有名的景點就是舉辦坎城影展的節慶宮，
但可惜的是一旦沒有明星的星光襯托，這個建築物就如同一般的商業大樓一樣無聊。
所以我們開始了扮演明星的遊戲…

跟人握手的明星

幫人簽名的明星

接受採放的明星

只想享受陽光的明星(有經紀人擋駕)

親和力十足的明星

  招計程車向大家揮手的明星

在如同America’s next top model角色扮演完之後，
我們都有點累了，決定到一間LP推薦的海鮮餐廳享用晚餐。

"Astoux & Brun是一間世界知名的海鮮餐廳，最有名的菜餚是海鮮拼盤" by LP

由於這是我們第一次到比較有規模的餐廳點餐，
而且又是坐在露天座位，所以我們看到菜單的時候有種不知所措的感覺。
不過在定下心之後，我們開始點餐了…

白酒一瓶，21歐，搭配海鮮的好伴侶

考螺肉，應該是贈送的，搭配美乃滋醬和酒醋
(這應該不會發生丁丁那種慘事吧…)

還有附送個小剛釘

麵包是吃到飽的，Yaby!

各位觀眾，重點來了！

海鮮拼盤~~~!!!!! (88歐)

來張近拍

如果要來算算，裡面的海鮮有
白蝦(吃起來根本就是甜的，犯規！)
美國小螯蝦(這應該是小龍蝦的兄弟吧)
生蠔數顆(加檸檬就很好吃了)
不知名蚌殼(吃起來很鮮甜)
大螺肉(肉很Q，口感很棒)
還有一隻大大大蟹黃蟹但超多肉超肥的螃蟹。

Cheers!

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這是我吃的份

接下來要看的是現場處理食材的照片。

堆積如山的海鮮，還有專門的敲殼師傅。
這間店果然名不虛傳啊！

大家都吃high了

吃完飯之後接近太陽下山，我們前往坎城的山丘中塔去看夕陽的美景，
很多地方都有修道院或者是教堂蓋在城市旁邊的小丘，
很適合在傍晚的時候走上山去看看夜景。

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當夜晚降臨時，我們前往了有沙灘的海邊，
沒想到空中撥放著鄧麗君的歌曲，陪伴我們在沙灘與海水邊聊天打屁的時光。

回家打UNO囉

First Erasmus Party

It was like happened in the yesterday, but it was last Thursday,
the very first party in Europe I ever had.

We went to the party around 10, met lots of people of EMLyon,
the party was held by a student union named Erasmus Lyon.
They held parties like every week in Thursday or so,
if you joined their facebook or add Erasmus as a friend,
you’ll receive infos for the latest party.

Since I havent met anyone I know, so we decided to have a little gambling,
that is play a game, find out who’s the winner and the loser,
the loser must find somebody else to take a picture.
It was much fun than I expected. :P

Take a look at the photo and see who’s the loser

Loser no.1

Loser no.2

Cote d’Azur (2)

Back to nice again.

回到里昂的這幾天遇到清晨的低溫就不由自主地想到南法大家穿著調嘎，
戴著太陽眼鏡欣賞美麗的風光，從台灣帶來的防曬乳也可能再也用不到了吧！
除非我們去阿爾卑斯山時怕雪反射的陽光太強烈…

第二天早上，我們起了一個大早，前往馬諦斯博物館參觀，
Matisse是誰?

馬諦斯是一位法國畫家及雕刻家。1905年，馬諦斯三十六歲那年，結識了另一位畫家德安（Andre Derain），兩人結伴到法國地中海岸寫生，以大膽強烈的色彩來描繪風景和靜物，產生眩目的畫面。同年秋天，他與德安、烏拉曼克（Vlaminck）等人一同展出畫作，他們所表現的自由線條、強烈色彩和非具象的描繪，馬上便引起藝壇的注目，藝評家稱他們為「野獸派」。

野獸派是以表現內在感情為目標，吸收東方和非洲藝術的表現手法，開創一種有別於西方古典繪畫傳統的疏、簡意境，傾向寫意和裝飾的目的。

我們為了找公車站在尼斯市區繞了一下，
這個小小的城區其實交通十分便利，而且四通八達。

由於博物館本身是免費開放參觀的，
所以有許多歐美人士都選擇此處作為尼斯旅遊的其中一站，
但主要是以中老年人為主，參雜幾個家裡看起來麥克麥克的年輕人。

場館裡面是不能照相的，所以我沒有拿出相機，
不過購買了幾張明信片，一張名為le Ciel的是要寄給遠在日本的阿汝，
一張Jazz是要寄給未來的自己，另外兩張舊站是保留囉！

博物館的正對面是一大片草坪，由於博物館裡面太冷，
所以我們索性坐在草叢上曬太陽，微風徐徐很舒服。
然後拍了一系列在草上歡愉的年輕人照片。

快到中午的時候，就前往了下一站，Grasse。
其實之前是在Grasses和鐵面人島之中抉擇的，由於這次我們的時間不多，
所以只能擇一參訪，在一連串因緣際會之下，我們搭上前往Grasse的ter列車，
前往香水的故鄉。

格拉斯是法國香水業的中心，被譽為世界香水之都。自從18世紀末以來，格拉斯的香水製造業一直相當繁榮。該鎮號稱「世界香水之都」（la capitale mondiale des parfums），生產法國三分之二的天然aromas，用於製造香水和食品調味料。每年香水業為格拉斯創造超過6億歐元的財富。格拉斯特殊的小氣候非常適合花卉種植。這裡較為溫暖，而且距離海邊有20千米路程。這裡水分充足，是因為位於山區的地理位置，以及在1860年代修建了用於灌溉目的的Siagne canal。

茉莉是許多香水的關鍵配料，在16世紀由摩爾人帶到法國南部。現在，每年在格拉斯收穫27噸茉莉。在格拉斯有許多香料店，每個都有 tours 和一個博物館。

 

由於我們決定的比較倉促，只看著LP的推薦就決定前往這邊，
所以在路上再度的迷路=口="
好險遇到同樣前往參觀旅遊的法國老先生老太太，在Joey殘破的法文溝通下，
我們一起前往了香水工廠參觀。

有面牆畫著世界各地的香料，我用這張圖指出台灣給法國佬爺爺看

其實在Grasse有很多香水相關產業的東西，
例如香水工廠、香水博物館、專業花園等等的產業，
他們也幫很多知名香水代工生產香水，
那些很了解香水香味的人甚至有"the nose"之稱，
全世界只有250人可以擁有這樣的資格。

展示吸收茉莉花香的工具

現在我才知道以往的香水都必須依靠脂肪吸收花香，
然後透過油水分離的方式取得帶有香氣的水，加上酒精之後才是後來的香水。
一頓的茉莉花只能夠製造一公升的香精。

聽到這麼厲害的故事，敗家三人組各自在五分鐘內決定買了一瓶香水，
用愛菲爾鐵塔裝飾的淡香水，一罐90ml花了我們600台幣。

想到辛苦賺錢的爸媽…這群敗家子弟不禁懊惱了起來…

Lyon rocks!!

Anthony is one VP of  AIESEC Lyon,
he’s a nice shy guy with french accent, but we always joking around,
he has a Chinese girl friend and can speak a little bit of Chinese.

We went to the school asking about the ticket for the party tonight,
but unfortunately it was all sold out and they wouldn’t let anyone w/o the ticket to enter,
so we went to one bar only Lyonnais knows to watch the football match.

”It’s in the basement and there’s a big screen project live time TV, it may be crowded tonight because of the game, we need to go there early in case of out of seats!” -- Anthony

So we arrive the bar at around 8 and Anthony drove his car,
I was wondering we need a car in France, coz no car means no leg,
we can walk to Carrefour or Ecully center but not to Lyon city center,
it is like no night life here since our campus is in the mountains.

It was an Irish bar decorated with many green things and road signs,
the light was deem yet relaxing and there’s some tables of guest was there waiting for
the football game begin.

Luckly there was enough seats for us, and we even sneak to the basement which was
not planned to open in the night.
So the 3 of us shared the basement and the big screen.
*Anthony and his girl friend and me as well

Stone door and big screen

We ordered the sweet beer since she like it a lot.
It’s kind of weird in the first taste yet smooth later, they pour syrup in the beer to make one. I strongly recommend it for girls who’s afraid of the bitterness of beer.

The game was fun and the Lyon won the german team, 1-0,
Anthony was very happy and buring the match i’ve learned some useful french words like

“Phis de bute” (Son of bXXXXh) by Anthony

I am not really in to any kind of sport activity but I like to watch football game,
at least the tempo of the game was quick and sharp, instead of baseball.
So we had a fun night and drove back to le Galion at 23:00.

She look way prettier in person.

I can’t open my eyes, why can he?

Then we met Mathias and other guys planned to go to the party,
the ticket was like pink bracelet and there’s 10 stars on it means you can have 10 free drinks.
I told the guys that I was in the bar with Anthony and rooted for the Lyon team,
Toby said that I am in the wrong place since i was talking to 3 german guy in the kitchen.
Mathias called that band as the Gay tag and people who wears the ticket become gay,
but unfortunately he couldnt get the ticket himself so he went back to his room.

“What a pity!” by Eric

Part of who?

We had the very first class this afternoon,
it was corporate valuation, which i really suck at,
but i wanna try it again so i take this course and try to figure out
what the heck is WACC, CAPM or EVA or some stupid abbreciation like that.

The course will last for 6 weeks so the 1st week is part of the lecture,
we  discussed about FCFF which means free cash flow for firm, and
i could follow the tempo of the lecturer ‘cause lakcing of finance terms and
not similiar to that subject.
In other words, i had a hard time during the course, Tobi my friend tried to help me
but i know that i have to depend on my own.

At the end of the course, we have to work out to different groups
in order to make final presentation for the 5th week.
Tobi and Mathias had already worked out for their group so I need to make one,
I asked one guy at the class room and became the first memeber of our group,
then 2 other Chinese guys, i mean people comes from mainland China came to us and
asked that if they could join our group.

We said yes and started to introduce each other then.

The guy I asked before was named Federico from Turin, Italy,
and he asked us about where we came from,
the 2 chinese guys said that they are from China,
and I said that I am from Taiwan, then one of them continued “is part of China”
I was like WHAT THE HECK with this kind of situation?
I replied “Whatever” because I didn’t want to fight with anyone in the “group”
in this issue, it’s kinda of sensitive and even I won the fight,
what will happen? Nothing!

I wondered the guys are nice yet a little bit childish,
they might think it’s a glorious success of winning the oral compeition.
But go fxxk yourself with your winning face, it doesn’t make any sense that you bring about this issue, OK?
Maybe I was pissed off and offended by the guy from China,
but it’s OK if that made him happier or make our group more efficient.
THAT’S FINE WITH ME.

OK, turn the thing into the bright side,
Alison told me that she’ totally fine now and felt energetic with things happend here,
which is fine for me because she always remind me of home,
Taiwan and boyfriend or girl friend stuff.
It’s good to see her smiling face.

So I cooked for them, the mushroom and tomato chicken, fried vegetables and soy sause egg.
yet my fav part is the rice!
We had the traditional Taiwanese dinner here, nice!

There’s somethings worth to fight for, some are not.

Macaron

Joey wanted to go to Ecully central for saving money,
i wondered for a while and walk with her to have a petit adventure.
The weather was raining but turns sunny afterwards,
Ecully is a small town near the city Lyon,
but it got everything a resident need, so it’s fine for people live here.

The church was the most prestigious building downtown,
and the main commercial activities happened around the church.
We went to a little food shop just for fun,
then we found the famous french dessert “Macaron” was there.
Asked for a taste, they kindly provide the whole piece to us and
we felt like to buy some.

I ate the chocolate flavor before i realize haven’t taking a picture of it,
so the there are berry flavor of Macaron.

It was sure made 100% from real fruit and the taste of is is like heaven,
a little bit of sour and sweet combined together and share the same crispy side.
They put some jam in the macaron so that make the taste last a little longer in mouth.

Then we went to the local supermarket for necessarities.
The most special aisle here was the wine selection.

Even a small market around the corner provide so many kinds of wine selection.
It’s totally different than in Taiwan.

Some of the kids just dismissed from the school and went home with their parents,
i like this small town. and its atmosphere in the air.

Cote d’Azur (1)

上週五我們從orientation week解脫，
立刻在周四晚賞訂了車票，前往位於南法的Nice，
度過上個周末的假期。
九月的法國天氣還不會很冷，但是已經開始起風和下雨了，
我們住的里昂是個很會哭的城市，聽說一天到晚都會下雨，
所以前往位於蔚藍海岸的尼斯變成了一種在學期開始前的解脫，
我們需要一點海風、很多海鮮、找到一點在台灣常常聞到的海味。

After the long term suffer from orientation week,
we escaped to the city Nice for our weekend.
The weather in Lyon seems raining afterwards, so it’s a high time to grasp
the tail of summer, have fun at the BEACH!

TGV就像是台灣高鐵一樣

像是在拍王家衛電影的Joey

由於我們訂的是早上6:35的車，所以必須搭上清晨5:10的巴士，
否則我們會遲到，甚至坐不到車，
在經過柯柯的五分鐘dash賽跑之後，我們總算搭上巴士，前往位於Part-dieu的車站，
經過了4小時30分鐘的車程，抵達了Nice。

The train was 6:35, so we need to take bus at 5:10,
or we gonna miss the train. Since we joined the party and back home around 2 am,
it’s kind of hard for us to stay awake.
After the amazingly dash by Alison, we got on the bus and went Part-dieu station..
The journey took 4 hours and 30 minutes.
Here we are, Nice.

Nice的天氣當然是Nice

Ville de Nice尼斯市其實不大，我看起來有點像是土耳其的Izmir，
就是個靠海邊的慵懶城市，只是他的觀光資源比較多，而且很多中國食物。
我們在尼斯的第一餐，又是那大家喜愛的flunch，可惜海邊的Nice沒有moule，
讓我和Joey有種小小的失望感。但是又在後來的幾餐中得到滿足。

Ville de nice is a nice yet small city by the sea, i can felt the laziness in the air,
just like Izmir in Turkey.
We had our first meal and the “flunch”, everybody likes it.

各位看官們，上圖就是蔚藍海岸的樣子，天和海一線之隔，
雖說沒有沙攤，但是石頭攤更加俐落，至少躺日光浴不用甩沙。
我們沒有準備泳衣泳褲，但是還是硬要在海邊玩玩水，
這就是傳說中地中海的蔚藍海岸，我們很幸福啊~!!

Yes, it is the Cote d’Azur, look at the sky and the sea, it’s all ciel.
There’s no sand coast yet smaller stones, we played the water sunbathed for about 2 hours.

附近有機場，所以海上都有飛機飛過

之後我們前往一個Nice的高點鐘塔，觀看整個海岸線的風景，
從上往下看的view和景觀很不同，

城區和海岸

海邊有遊艇

之後就到每個城市都有得舊城區去逛逛走走，
通常舊城區有比較窄的巷子、以較多有趣的小餐館和人文風情。

尼斯很著名的一個小吃就是Socca，
有點像是煎豆泥之類的東西，吃起來很香，
一份大約2.5歐，也就是100台幣。

Socca

 

接著就是第一天的晚餐，我們隨意在舊城區選了個看起來人很多的小餐館吃飯，
這邊很多餐館都是露天座位，

普羅旺斯特餐

要特別小心財物被路人搶走，
我們在用餐的時候就是因為不小心聊太開心所以東西差點被搶走。

晚上我們沒有在Nice待太晚，但是走在燈光燦爛的觀光城市裡感覺很不賴，
到了超市買了明天的早餐和酒，然後我們就打道回府，玩Uno。
拿漱口杯喝酒的機會不多，今晚是個機會。