La Chapelle de Notre Dame de la Vie.

I'm quite lucky, having my office located in Sophia Antipolis. Not only is Sophia-Antipolis considered "the Silicon Valley" of France, which is great in terms of professional opportunities. But it's also located in an area with a lot of beautiful nature. Just next door to the office, the Parc de Valmasque has great footpaths, and mountain biking paths. This has lead me to do rather more sports than I'm used to!

This particular time, we decided to cycle over to nearby Mougins, and more specifically, to the Chapelle de Notre Dame de la Vie. It's a rather curious little chapel for at least two reasons. First of all, it was immortalized in a painting by the one and only Winston Churchill (yes, Mr. Churchill was a rather multi-skilled individual, and one of those skills was painting). Second of all, none other than Pablo Picasso spent the last 12 years of his life in his villa, which was located just next doors (the Mas de la Chapelle de Notre Dame de la Vie). Apparently he very much appreciated the chapel. It's easy to see why - it's a very beautiful place.

There's also a pretty nice view over the surrounding scenery, which we checked out (and in my case, immortalized with my smartphone, naturally). The ride back to the office was pretty much routine stuff in the Valmasque. I have to say, my bike and myself were both in rather messy states after the ride - the tracks were very muddy after the rain from the day before!