your last day at cote d' azur. sitting at the airport lounge now, your memories traveled some 10 years back the journey to the second visit to cote d' azur (or first visit together with him). despite you remember the delicious nicoise food and the azur blue sea and the warmth of december sunshine, you couldn't recall much of the other impression.
you had a brief visit to nice old town after the museum visit this trip. you'd been here 10 years ago, the place has not changed. in fact nice or the entire cote d' azur strip remains pretty much the same. it's as if time has not slip away as far as the building or nature is concerned. the same blue sky in december, the same sunshine only you're relatively new to europe when you first set your feet here 10 years ago, but now you'd consider yourself a seasoned traveler who have adopted europe as your second home.
you're here 10 years ago, it was not the intention to take the photo at the similar place
only when you sort out your photo, you realized the same restaurant was there 10 years ago and it's still there. the same december sunshine. same yellow wall and red sun screen
walking further, you came to cours saleya, the morning flower market but also sells different kinds of produce... this was taken 10 years ago, from a elevated perspective
10 years later, you walked the same cours saleya, the products still largely the same only you are confined to a 35mm lens view...
from cours saleya, you walked to promenade d' anglais, this was you 10 years ago
perhaps not exactly at the same spot or time of the day, but the background of the photo is still the same. 10 years... time has certainly flown and obviously a different you ( a more seasoned one ^^)
sitting in the lounge, while you enjoying your last glass of sunshine (bandol rose wine), he was busy tableting... you have to come back to reality as your flight is calling...
in no time you hopped on to your flight, north bound to lowland. yes, that's where you belong, looking out from the flight, you know you are going to miss the blue and the sunshine dearly. you're not sure if you will be back here again, it's not the tendency to visit the same places twice (well except barcelona and cote d' azur)... however you're really thankful for this experience and the opportunity to reflect and compare. both of you have certainly mature, in age and in the Lord. 10 years of togetherness is not always a bed of roses, but it is when Jesus is the center of it all, center of your life, of your marriage that really matters... it's Him and His cross that carried you through.
perhaps you will never come back again, perhaps you will... and if you will, you hope to be able to still stroll through the old nice town with him in another 10 or 20 years. perhaps you will be like the old couple in this picture about, wandering the small alley roads and recount your blessings and journey 10, 20 years ago. you don't mind growing old but you want to grow old graciously and live your purpose on earth as God has intended for you.
2003 nice was nice.
2013 nice is still nice. and surely in many years to come nice will still be nice!
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