We had a day off today and took the train to Menton, a lovely resort town on the Italian border, to check out the annual Lemon Festival. They create a park full of huge displays made entirely of oranges, lemons, and flowers (as well as parades with floats made of fruit, night-time displays, and other events). The theme this year was Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days and the amazing citrus displays depicted various places in the world visited by Phileas Fogg on his voyage. The fruit are attached to the huge display frames with elastic bands. This year the displays consumed 120 tons (!) of citrus and a million elastic bands. Click on the thumbnails below to see larger images. Only in France!
- Note the fruit and flower mosaics on the ground
- English trains; note Big Ben in the background
- Phileas Fogg’s balloon, made entirely of citrus, flowers, and foilage.
- Lady Liberty, in oranges and lemons!
- Japan in fruit
- Pagodas in citrus
- Oranges attached by elastic band
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