Photos from Menton, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Europe - page 2

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This giant lizard represented Madagascar

This one too is nicely framed !

lovely dancer from Cuba

Confetti cannons were everywhere ... here they shower the crowd from the Tahiti float.

Tahiti's float

There were eight dancers from Colombia, who stopped every few hundred feet to put on a show.

Japan's float

a wild boar, Corsica's float

Clowns came first.

There are some things you just can't improve on !

There were also orchid and other displays in this neighbouring building.

pirate and figurehead

port side

starboard side gun ports with wooden cannons

starboard bow view

The 'pirate ship' in following photos was sponsored by a local college

Easter Island 'stone head' display

Madagascar's giant sea tortoise

another 'Lost Island' monster

dragon from 'Lost Island' sponsored by Menton

south seas flowers from Tahiti

Tahiti is represented by this warrior.

ruins of Syracuse, sponsored by Sicily

life-sized Corsican peasant and donkeys

abandoned castle symbolizing Corsica

The theme in 2008 of this and the remaining photos was 'Islands'.

rowboat sponsored by Cannes

giant octopus

curious seahorse

My late wife Myrtle admires Menton's lighthouse

giant swordfish

dolphin olympics

'The Lorelei' from Baden Baden, Germany

'Moby Dick' perhaps

playful dolphins entered by the Italian town of Vintimille

''hitching a ride''

partial view of Lemon Festival in Bioves Park

The Festival's theme in 1994 was ''The Sea''

Tour buses by the score fill downtown at Festival time.

Menton is right on the Italian border.

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