Cabot (CVL 52) - Naval Cruise Book

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Villefranche Harbor Promenade Des Anglais There was something to please every taste . . . football and baseball in the Stadium at Villefranche, just a few minutes from Fleet Landing . . . tennis at Beaulieu and Nice . . . golf at Monte Carlo. And tours! . a five day trip to Paris, a four day trip to Switzerland, and local tours to Monte Carlo and Grasse, the perfume center of France. For everyone there was good food- bifstek , frits , Salade a la Nicoise, Bouillabaise fthat wonderful fish soupl, pastry and more. Most of us ate until we could eat no more -then started all over again. For some of the best meals and drinks it wasn't even neces- sary to leave Fleet Landing. Remember Jimmie's Bar, Chez f Germaine, Mom's, The. Cor- S-Q A--f GA E7 Ev gyg-Jyjx. CU 4 saire, and all the others where J' you could buy a beer or an i aperitif and sit in the sun? FTW We left Villefranche feel- - H- l r N ing that we had seen the best I U in the Mediterranean. I EEN C .

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,,.......--1 The londing Gt Villetronche VILLEFRANCHE Remember Nice? . . . ond Villetronche, our lost liberty port? Someone once soid thot Villetronche wos like no other port they hod ever visited-no worehouses or dirty steomers . . .no sound of donkey engines, no smell of diesel oil or spices, The pink tile roots ot the town ond the postel wolls of the villos in the hills oround the boy looked olmost unreol os the CABOT ond the destroyers onchored eorly on Morch 6. To the north behind the town were the green foothills ot whot the French coll the Moritime Alps. ln the distonce Mount Lenzo still hod snow on its peok. W' 37 , kit 'N X .W l lf et Hllll' r 1. .in VP M . - W. 0 ' : To the west,' protecting the port like o long green orm, wos Cop Jeon Ferrot, where King Leopold ot Belgium, Som- erset Moughom ond others of the titled ond weolthy of Europe hove their summer villos. The French Riviero . . . where heorts ore won ond tor- tunes lost. Nice with its fomous polm-lined boordwolk'. . . the Promenade des Anglois . . . the beoutitul hotels over- looking the beoch . . . the Ruhl, the Continentol, l-lotel Royole ond others. The clubs . . . the Cosino, the Plontotion, the Hovono, the Monte Cristo.

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