It Really is Blue
No place was ever more appropriately named than this Cote D’Azure-the Blue Coast. In Nice and Monte Carlo and Antibes, they sell tinted photographs of the coast in which the sea is a thick dollop of printers’ ultramarine, and the sky a striking arrangement of crimson and 4pricot stripes, The odd thing about these aesthetically abominable photographs is that they are perfectly accurate representations of the French Riviera. Through the windows of the Blue Train you see such a violence of colour that you can scarcely believe it is true. Only the olive trees seem faded by the ruthless sun. The villas are sun-baked to dazzling whites and pinks, acid green palms grow in their gardens, and masses of red and white sun-conditioned flowers. Ranks of dark cyprus trees march up the stony hills. In every glossy leaf-mirror, in each polished flake of stone, in the windows and roofs of the villas, in the walls and upholstery of the. Blue Train, and even in the very skins of your fellow travellers is reflected the intensity of the Mediterranean blue. You will see a good deal of the blue coast before you step out on an airy platform and walk into the entrancing comic-opera that is the Principality of Monaco.("Travellers’ Joy,’ by Miss Négaio Marsh, 3YA, July 2).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 8
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221It Really is Blue New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 8
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