In Antibes, right next to the covered market at the Cours Masséna, we came across this lovely lady from another time, sitting at a table and selling... what? Nothing, really. She is merely holding up a sign advertising some special or other. The store sells wine and local products; I do not know whether this includes absinthe, a beverage that is truly the devil’s work, as the Van Gogh poster on the left attempts to make clear. So bad is this concoction that it was banned for almost a hundred years in the United States and for a major part of the 20th century in Europe. It is not until the 1990s that absinthe, which was invented in Neuchâtel, started to make a modest comeback. It’s still not very common today, although, as they say, absinthe makes the heart grow fonder {groan}...