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?

To Eze And Back Again, 2

More of our excursion to Eze, the road back, and Nice...

Eze' first well/fountain, built in 1930; before then, water
was hauled up the hill en pied

No denying the beauty of the place

Where Swedish royals lived

Cruisifixion

Back in Nice

Walking by the performing arts place

The library building/sculpture Vicki posted on Facebook

To Eze And Back Again, 1

On October 26th we undertook an excursion to the Middle Corniche bastide town of Eze, famed for its views and overall prettiness, being winter home to the Swedish royals for many years, and for comically high prices, especially during the Grand Prix in Monaco next door. There were many turbusses. From the aire de camping-cars in St. Laurent du Var we took the train to Beaulieu sur Mer and then the bus up to Eze. It was a fine day's outing.

Caryatids in Beaulieu sur Mer, not out of place since the Greeks colonized much
of this part of the Mediterranean

So much for high culture

Looking up to the Grand Corniche

Waiting for the bus by Beaulieu sur Mer's marina

Marina sculpture (in a park adjoining the marina)

Turbuss on the Middle Corniche

Ruin way high up

At Eze: why they hate us

Unhelpful model #1, at an Eze gift shoppe; Eze is pretty monochrome

Main interest for me

I was going to walk down it, but then it occurred to me I'd have to walk back up;
next time, the smart thing to do would be to walk up from Eze-sur-Mer...or maybe
just take a picture...

Helpful if stationary map

Looking down toward Nietzsche's trail

Part of the view

Follow the red brick road

Sculpture park at one of the fancy hotels

Great autumn color, great Mediterranean light

After seeing several of these, we opted for a pizza lunch further
up the hill (not pictured)

To be continued