Olmsted (APA 188) - Naval Cruise Book

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0I.FE JU THE The Riviera can mean many different things to Olmsteders. To some, it means endless beaches stretching along a sunny shore with the sea foaming into white surf that washes the sand. Beach umbrellas, paddle boats, bikini bathing suits, yachts and craft of all sizes and shapes and colors, sails and fishing nets drying in the sun. Or it can be wide boulevards lined with stately resort hotels of white concrete, sophisticated and cosmopolitan. Limousines and chauffeurs, sidewalk cafes with white-coated garcons hust- ling bottles of champagne to mink coats and tuxedos, or night clubs with gay laughter and rumba music. To others, it may be a quiet park and a bench, statues, patterns of bright flowers and tall palm trees, the sound of water trickling from a fountain or of a waltz during a public concert. Rolling country side with houses, pink, white, yellow, studding hills covered with flower gardens and grape arbors. It can be a flower festival in Nice, processions of flowery floats with girls tossing roses and carnations to the crowd, blaring bands in parade. Or the International Film Festival at Cannes, foreign films from all parts of the world, film stars from many different countries. It can mean shopping for souvenirs-perfumes, silks, 400-day clocks, paintings-or touring through villages, dancing in night clubs, hearing the candy lyricism of the French language, or witnessing the indescribable warming charm of the women. The Alps looming in the distance, chateaus, swimming pools, Monte Carlo and fortunes changing hands. It means many different things to Olmsteders-gaiety, excitement or repose-but leaving the Riviera meant only regret. i

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