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The Coast by way of the Alps
in photographs.

A red and black tram passing a white modern apartment building against a deep blue sky — NiceDeep blue sky, and a tram to be somewhere else by.

A tall stone triumphal arch framing a street that runs downhill between pale buildings toward distant hills, with people crossing beneath — MarseilleThe arch frames the street, and the street frames the hills.

An ochre apartment facade with shutters and a washing line, a cat walking along the top of a cracked garden wall below — MarseilleThe cat had the better route.

The interior of a gallery over two levels, hung with large abstract paintings in blue, red and orange — MarseilleTwo floors, and no wall left empty.

A tiled entrance under a gilded sign reading Passage de Lorette, with a mosaic panel of a city and its harbour above the doorway — MarseilleThe passage puts a map of the city over its own door.

A mosaic panel of a white stork standing in grass, set into a plain rendered wall beside a young tree — MarseilleA stork set into the render, facing the street.

A large sepia mural of an old working harbour with cranes and sailing ships, painted across a wall beneath a blue street sign — MarseilleThe old port, painted on a wall a long way from it.

A cook working behind a small restaurant counter, turquoise tiles and hanging pans behind him, a folded cloth over the counter edge — MarseilleOne cook, one counter, one thing at a time.

A no-stopping sign in the foreground with a large modern building of patterned brick and a construction crane behind — MontpellierStill going up behind the sign that says not to stop.

A long stone aqueduct running beside a tree-lined boulevard in low sun, its arches throwing repeated shadows across the pavement — MontpellierThe arches keep going long after the road stops caring.

Snow-covered alpine peaks above dark forested slopes, the sky fading pink behind them — Alpe d'HuezThe peaks kept the light after the valley lost it.

A broad snow-covered ski slope scattered with pines, a piste running down its flank — Alpe d'HuezA whole face, and one line down it.

A gondola cabin marked Alpe d'Huez passing directly overhead, snowy peaks visible beyond it — Alpe d'HuezEverything here arrives hanging from a cable.

A piste running down toward a valley completely filled with cloud, dark rock breaking through above it — Alpe d'HuezThe run ends in cloud, and you go anyway.

Wind-blown snow streaming across a broad white summit dome under a dark blue sky, skiers reduced to specks — Alpe d'HuezWind across the top, and everyone very small.

Skiers spread across a wide open snow slope with dark rock outcrops, in flat grey light — Alpe d'HuezFlat light, which flattens the slope with it.

A snow ridge under deep blue sky with a line of orange safety netting staked across it — Alpe d'HuezOrange netting, and a very clear reason for it.

The inside of a gondola station, empty cabins parked in a line under steel trusses above a metal grating floor — Alpe d'HuezWhere the cabins go when the mountain closes.

A resort town spread across a snowy bowl far below, with cloud hanging over the mountain wall behind it — Alpe d'HuezThe whole resort fits in the bowl, with room over.

A mountain restaurant terrace built into the piste under low cloud, a single skier passing below it — Alpe d'HuezLunch at the point where the cloud starts.

A grey pebble beach meeting turquoise Mediterranean water, a few people lying out on the stones — NicePebbles, not sand, and nobody seems to mind.

A street of ochre and pink buildings with shutters and balconies, hills closing off the far end in evening light — NiceThe street runs until the hills stop it.

A grand white Belle Époque hotel facade with a dome and tiers of curved balconies, a palm frond crossing the blue sky above — MonacoBuilt curved, so every balcony gets the same view.

Two classic red sports cars parked in a bright showroom garage, one with its engine cover raised — MonacoParked indoors, under lights, like exhibits.

Modern terraced apartment blocks stacked against a pale limestone cliff, seen past an older balconied facade in the foreground — MonacoThe cliff ran out, so they kept building up it.

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Field notes, route plans, and photographs from Sean Higgins.

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