Vicki had found a nice older campground in Antibes, the former Antipos, founded by the Greeks way back in the 4th century BCE, and we decided to relax there a couple days as well as visit Nice. Antibes is just a few miles west of Nice, and it was an easy bus ride on a beautiful spring day. Nice is one of our favorite places. Previous, more conventional blog posts about the city and its sights are:
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2010/07/nice-is-nice-1.html,
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2010/07/nice-is-nice-2.html,
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2010/07/nice-is-nice-3.html, and
http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2017/11/nice-2017.html.
For this visit, and the previous one or two, we just wandered around, enjoying the abundant ambiance. And being back in France.
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| Heading for the old town, we first visited the large market |
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| Street scene |
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| Shoppes and restaurants in Nice have always struck us as among the more clever... |
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| Alley storeroom for a non-gluten-free restaurant |
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| In a cafe |
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Something we'd not done in previous visits was go up to the old fortress and park
that overlook the eastern end of the city; happily, there was a free elevator and
only a short wait; the elevator shaft was in the former well of the fortress, 16th
century or so, 85m deep |
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| Grooming Nice's famed pebble beach |
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| Sweep of the bay out to the airport; Antibes in the far distance... |
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| Us, there |
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| Big city |
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In the park, something about Ulysses, who was said to have sailed in these parts;
nothing about Penelope, however |
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| Harbor with five-master we've seen at Amalfi and Capri; I think |
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| Art nouveau touches all over |
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Lunch at the Bistro d'Antoine; another of Vicki's Michelin
Red finds |
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| My anchovies |
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| Her duck |
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| My fish |
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It was a pretty classy joint as bistros go, so we were
astonished and amused to see Frisch's Big Boy by the bar;
none of the staff knew what it was nor where it was from... |
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| Mannequin art, something I could get into |
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| "Trump is crazy" |
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| A city of wonderful ghost signs |
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| Cat shoppe |
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| Artistes' shoppe |
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| Gotta have one of these; definitely to visit the Charvin in Paris... |
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| Did I mention all the art nouveau in Nice? |
1 comment:
Your food looked yummy! Think I still have some stones from the beach in Nice from our 1976 visit!
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