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Hôtel Les Roches Rouges, on France’s glorious Côte d’Azur, may be a new entry on the hospitality scene — it just opened last year — but there’s a reason photographer Slim Aarons is oft-mentioned in its descriptions in the press. The seaside resort, near Saint-Raphael, perfectly exudes a certain retro allure — all glamour and lazy days in the sun. The hotel itself is divine, with a Fifties Modernist design, multiple restaurants and bars, a first-class spa, an open-air cinema, a full-size pétanque court and a roof terrace. But the real attraction here, really, is the location and the natural surroundings: sparking Mediterranean waters, unreal azure skies and sweeping horizon views. No sentence could really do the place justice so we’ll let the pictures do the talking…
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La Petite Fraise Cocktail
Ingredients
40 ml of Gin Mare
30 ml of Vermouth
15 ml of strawberry and thyme cordial
15 ml of fresh lemon juice
3 dashes of mandarin bitters
2 dashes of vanilla bitters
Dash of soda
Directions
Add all ingredients — except the soda — to a shaker. Add lots of ice, and shake. After shaking, open the shaker and add a dash of soda to the mix. Fine strain into a highball glass full of ice. Garnish with a chopped strawberry on a cocktail stick.
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