Èze-sur-Mer & Cap Estel

Everyone knows Èze as the village on the rock. From the water you get the other half of it: the cliffs the corniche is cut into, pines and agave hanging off them, and the small green promontory of Cap Estel below.

The water comes deep right up to the shore here, so it is a swim stop rather than a beach day — engines off in ten metres, twenty feet from the rock, with nothing above you but the road you would otherwise have been sitting in.