{"id":3179,"date":"2015-06-13T14:21:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T21:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2015-06-13T22:30:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T05:30:54","slug":"really-pretty-piece-of-history-fortifications-and-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/13\/really-pretty-piece-of-history-fortifications-and-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Really Pretty Piece of History: Fortifications and Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was all about the fortifications back then. \u00a0This lovely walkway in Fort Grimaud\u00a0has existed for centuries. \u00a0It’s part of the walled village of Fort Grimaud about half an hour outside St. Tropez.<\/p>\n

No major earthshaking moments today but still lovely and intriguing, reinforcing the\u00a0reality that being safe, enclosed and protected – keeping marauders or warriors or other bad guys at bay – that was the bottom line.<\/p>\n

As we made our way back to the ship, the Romany (gypsies to many) were out in force – this is just one of the parking lots we passed\u00a0– jammed with their trailers, laundry trailers, cooking trailers and more. \u00a0Our guide kept telling us how everyone had to “watch their wallets.” \u00a0These folks have a pretty bad reputation across Europe as pickpockets and other mischief makers.<\/p>\n

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Fort Grimaud also recalled this:\u00a0s in the rest of Europe, the World Wars are central to the soul of so many still – all these years later. These two – a monument to those in this small town who died in World War I and a 1940 declaration of peril from French General Charles de Gaulle in 1940 ,the year war once again descended on his country. \u00a0London to Lithuania to France – these wars\u00a0haunt memory and remind residents of fear, and death, and loss.<\/p>\n

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Then there are these — we were the first customers for Lorenzo and Gerard in their new shop – gorgeous earrings for me! \u00a0AND then lunch with some new friends and the best salad (with extra summer tomatoes) ever…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was all about the fortifications back then. \u00a0This lovely walkway in Fort Grimaud\u00a0has existed for centuries. \u00a0It’s part of the walled village of Fort Grimaud about half an hour outside St. Tropez. No major earthshaking moments today but still lovely and intriguing, reinforcing the\u00a0reality that being safe, enclosed and protected – keeping marauders or … Continue reading Really Pretty Piece of History: Fortifications and Flowers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9,78],"tags":[3300,3298,3283,3297,2621,2640,3294,3295,3296,3299,3146],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-politics","category-travel","tag-degaulle","tag-gypsies","tag-riviera","tag-romany","tag-seabourn","tag-seabourn-cruise","tag-seabourn-odyssey","tag-seabourncruise","tag-st-tropez","tag-world-war-i","tag-wwi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-Ph","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3196,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/3196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}