Monday, May 20, 2019

Having A Nice Day

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.
Heading for the old town, we first visited the large market


Street scene

Shoppes and restaurants in Nice have always struck us as among the more clever...

Alley storeroom for a non-gluten-free restaurant

In a cafe

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

Grooming Nice's famed pebble beach

Sweep of the bay out to the airport; Antibes in the far distance...

Us, there

Big city

In the park, something about Ulysses, who was said to have sailed in these parts;
nothing about Penelope, however

Harbor with five-master we've seen at Amalfi and Capri; I think

Art nouveau touches all over
















































































































































































































































Lunch at the Bistro d'Antoine; another of Vicki's Michelin
Red finds

My anchovies 

Her duck

My fish















































































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...

Mannequin art, something I could get into

"Trump is crazy"

A city of wonderful ghost signs


Cat shoppe

Artistes' shoppe

Gotta have one of these; definitely to visit the Charvin in Paris...

Did I mention all the art nouveau in Nice?

1 comment:

Tawana said...

Your food looked yummy! Think I still have some stones from the beach in Nice from our 1976 visit!