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Menton and area

 We stayed for a couple of nights in Menton which is a French town on the Mediterranean right beside the Italian border.  Our hotel was right on the water.  One evening, we felt like Italian food, so we drove to Italy for dinner to a restaurant which serves only homemade pasta.  




Orange trees everywhere.  Menton is known as the Lemon Capital of France.

Everywhere there are amazing churches.  



A 1000 year old olive tree.  

On the left is a one person electric car.  Lots of these in the towns.  


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