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When people think of Southern France, the images that come to mind usually involve late nights of partying and topless beaches. It is amazing, then, that the French Riviera has been named Family Destination of the Year by the New York Times.
The French Riviera is an Adult Playground, With a PG Side
By JENNIFER CONLIN
WE hadn’t been lying on our cushy beach chairs in Cap d’Antibes for five minutes when the comments began. “Definitely fake,” proclaimed my 14-year-old daughter, carefully adjusting her bikini top. “How can you tell?” asked her 10-year old sister, who as yet has no trace of the objects in question. “I bet those ones are real,” my 9-year-old son muttered, motioning his head to the left. I looked around and realized we were surrounded by topless women of all ages, many with glasses of Champagne near their discarded swimsuits. As I watched a man in his 50s slather suntan oil on his half-nude, half-his-age girlfriend, I wondered if I had made a grave mistake bringing our family to the Côte d’Azur.
