The first thing that struck me when I hit Cap Ferrat was the size of the estates. The houses were massive, extremely well guarded and the drive ways looked like exotic car lots. I have run through some fairly affluent communities in Europe so far, but Cap Ferrat was a whole new level. I tried to get some pictures of one stunning estate [Villa Maryland, which turns out to be owned by Paul Allen: http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2008/04/brangelina-on-moveagain.html], but my pictures did not turn out. I also peeked into Villa Leopold [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Leopolda]. The Belle Époque architecture is amazing.
The run was a gradual climb to the center of the peninsula and then a descent to the bay [about 10 kms one way]. There were several runners and I joined up with an older french runner, who was very strong [you can see him in the video below]. We ran together talking in "frenglish" for several kilometres, when we parted ways he said that keeping up with me with tiring him out, which was good to hear [I thought he was tiring me out].
After returning from my run [I pushed the last 5 km, as it was by the beach and I had to keep up appearances] I went up to the apartment and found Ella waiting for me with her running gear on. She was ready to go. I had already logged in 20 km, but another 3 km was fine with me.
I had some other video footage of Ella and I running by the beach, but upon review it was a little x-rated due to the topless sunbathers littering the background.
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