Beach vacation 1940s France

Palavas-les-Flots is a French seaside resort south of Montpelier.

My mother, along with her mother and new stepfather, spent a summer vacation in Palavas while my step-grandfather  enjoyed learning how to use new film equipment.

I find this movie of my mother getting ready and then enjoying breakfast with her mother the most wonderful of the home movies. Sharing a meal with family brings back memories.

My mother marvels at how scrawny they all look; their post-war bodies not yet recovered from famine conditions.

Don’t they look stylish in their sunglasses?

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