Promenade

– You don't appear to have caught the sun.
– I was only there a couple of days.
– But still: the French Riviera, you know.
– It was a bit on the cold side. And wet.
– Right... I thought it was never cold. Or wet.
– I think I just caught it on a bad day. But it was a fascinating place to visit, even so.
– Pointless to go all that way just to lie basking on a beach.
– Exactly.
– To be pestered by film stars and minor European royalty.
– I can't say I noticed any.
– They tend to like to keep a low profile.
– They do? I thought they courted publicity.
– Not while on holiday.
– Then why would they pester me?
– Who knows? They are a law unto themselves.

The South of France (detail).