Sixty-four years ago today, World War II ended in Europe, and  in remembrance of this, May 8 is celebrated in many European countries every year. In France, it is a national holiday, and this means that I was off work for the second consecutive Friday. Late afternoon, we decided to walk to Valbonne and have a salad at the Auberge Provençale. This is an easy walk; it involves making one’s way down to the small river called La Braguette, climbing up a hill, and go down the other side where the village of Valbonne lies. The photo above shows La Braguette, which literally means “the fly” (as in pants, not insects), but which also the diminutive form of Brague, the name of Valbonne’s river. We got our salad and returned home by bus.