New chapters are always exciting.
Some close a door. Others open one. And sometimes, something has been quietly waiting for its new beginning for quite a while.
In our case, one chapter had ended — and the next one was simply waiting to be written.
Olives are everywhere here in the South. Vraiment partout. 🫒 Whenever we go hiking in the hills behind the Côte d’Azur, we pass old olive groves, tiny terraced fields and those wonderfully crooked trees that seem to have been there forever. Les oliviers simply belong to the landscape.
And they mean so much more than food. Picasso’s olive branch became one of the most recognisable symbols of peace, and years later his daughter Paloma turned the beauty of olive leaves into jewellery for Tiffany. But here in the South, you don’t really have to look for the symbolism. You live with it.
The longer you stay in a place, the more it reveals itself.
Not all at once — petit à petit.
Nice. Nizza. Nissa. French by address, Italian at heart — and wonderfully Mediterranean in between.
Domaine The Raphaehl – a luxury villa in Saint-Raphael, on the French Riviera. Perfect for boutique stays, weddings and unforgettable private events.