Cocks letter diary, 1916-1919 / Verner Cocks - Page 540
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The photo will show you what the Casino is like. We lunched at Menton - further along the coast & reached the Italian Frontier. We got off here & walked about a mile into Italy to a little town of Grimaldi where we posted a couple of pc's & sampled the Italian sweet wine so much spoken of. Our return journey was along the top of the mountains skirting the sea shore by what's known as the Grand Cornische road a famous way built by the Romans. Afternoon tead at an old roman village called La Turbie cont'g some old ruins & got back to Nice.
Another trip we did was from Nice along the coast to Cannes. Ten of us from the hotel went this time including a couple of American nurses. Cannes is the same kind of place as Nice - not as popular but I believe more select. From Cannes inland into the mountains to a town of Grasse where we went through some perfumeries. Then a
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