So there we are, travelling back west from Albenga along the Italian Riviera, to sight Cervo, which is a lovely yellow-pink town on a hill. The restoration here is near complete. No houses are rotting like in Gerassio’s borgo medieval with the cold river running past.
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We decided to try the mountains next. Enough of the seaside, the Riviera seaside, as lovely as it could be. Though it did prove to be very crowded on the French side, back west. We would now head for Garessio, up in Piemonte.
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Time to get out of overcrowded Nice. Drive the little rental diesel stick machine along the coast of the Mediterranean to get the feeling of what the Riviera is like. Up over the hills, and down into Villefranche Sur Mer…
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Yes, why not come along for a little trip into one of the loveliest places on Earth? 5 Petite installments. Pictures here. Watch for some surfable waves in the Mediterranean…..Arrival in Nice as this first installment….
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Results of independent laboratory tests in New York show certain as-yet-unnamed USA soft drinks contain as much as four times above the legal benzene limit for drinking water. Benzene, a known carcinogen, is formed when two ingredients in the beverage react with each other: sodium benzoate (a preservative) and ascorbic acid (vitamin C).
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With the ominous Anti-Labelling food bill passing in the House [HR 4167], and George Bush pushing nuclear power and starting up research to produce a new generation of nuclear weapons violating the NPT, Dr. Conrad Miller will speak of the details Friday March 17 from 3:00 until 4:00 P.M. on the Chuck Harder radio show.
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