Toujours Côte d'Azur

Excepting the street vendor hot dogs my partner and I ate before buying our apartment, my all-time favorite lunches are tomatoes, cheese, bread, fruit, and chocolate under an olive or pine tree with a big view after a hard morning hike. If the return journey ends with a swim in the Mediterranean, all the better. I took the so-called Nietzsche trail above Eze sur Mer where the philosopher was struck with the idea for Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Instead, I had Garth Greenwell's short stunner, Mitko, about an American teacher's relationship with a wayward Bulgarian. Get it.