Cap d'Antibes: A millionaire moment on the French Riviera

By Brian Johnston
Updated February 11 2017 - 1:18am, first published 12:15am
The hotel was once a private villa and still feels like one, surrounded by olive trees and lawns, and reflected in a mosaic-blue swimming pool. Photo: Hotel Imperial Garoupe
The hotel was once a private villa and still feels like one, surrounded by olive trees and lawns, and reflected in a mosaic-blue swimming pool. Photo: Hotel Imperial Garoupe
The Hotel Imperial Garoupe feels more 1950s, when the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn stayed in Cap d'Antibes.
The Hotel Imperial Garoupe feels more 1950s, when the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn stayed in Cap d'Antibes.

I swing my rental car through wrought-iron gates and onto a cobbled driveway shaded by palm trees and lined with terracotta pots of scarlet fuchsia. I drop my car keys into a waiting porter's hand, raise my sunglasses, and squint at the Imperial Garoupe, with its peach walls and bee-buzzed flowerbeds. The Mediterranean sun is hot on my face, and I feel like Gregory Peck.

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