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The hotels + villas look as though / just cut out of cardboard, touched up with watercolour, + glued on to the / rocks. They are white, except for a few daintily tined with pink or buff, + / have red tiled roofs, + green or French-grey shutters, + they are set-off by / the dark olive woods on the hills behind. / There is a little port which / recieves casks of wine + boat- / loads of sand cheifly. The / customs + postal system / are French. I believe there / are no rates + taxes. M. Blanc / —proprietor of the Casino— / kindly sends his hydraulic carts to water / the roads. The boulevard of the Condamine running along the / middle curve of the bay is the only bit of flat land found in the principality.' 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