Nice Eats

 Including some we ate, some we didn't...

Perhaps our best ice cream shoppe ever was Fenocchio's--three 
locations in old Nice

Not just the quality of the product but also the dazzling
array of flavors; best mango and coco ever 

One of three cases...traditional, weird, kiddie...

The usual veggie fare

The chicken chute at a boucher we patronized

One day's lunch in old town...Vicki's lasagna; here we discovered that,
at least in Nice, the French have become very waste-conscious and will
happily provide a box for Fido...pouvons-nous avoir un doggie bag, s'il
vous plait?

My salade nicoise...no potatoes, no anchovies, settling that dispute,
at least for a day

One can eat pretty well here for very little 

One of the Tunisian bakeries

One day's Mediterranean diet diner...the tomatoes count as fruit

Croutons with rouille

We actually snacked at this Tunisian bakery

Definitely a  Cote du Rhone with you dog

East California? Mojave Desert? Death Valley?

Last seen in Prague

Kiddie fare ("whaou"="wow")

Where we ate in La Turbie, previously posted

Spring asparagus is big in France, so much so that it gets its own serving pieces

Mark-downs  at a supermarket...at first we thought 
"anti-gaspi" meant "last gasp," but no, it means
"not to waste"

Serving up fleurs des courgettes at a market

The best Naples-style pizza in Nice, it is said, is at a place
called Les Amoreux, The Lovers

Interior decor; cracked me up

The ladies get a heart-shaped pizza...top that, Pizza Hut!; warrants 
another visit, Vicki said

I thought I'd go for my usual anchovy pizza, but failed to note that
Les Amoreux's version was bereft of cheese--unthinkable in Naples,
in my experience--just five anchovy fillets swimming in tomato
sauce; the sauce was good, and the bake was perfect, but I really missed
the cheese...interestingly, Les Amoreux did not note nor display its
affiliation or approval by the Associazzione Verace Pizza Napolitana...
hmmm...

Over the top Indian resto in old town

Outside seating

Seriously over the top

Totally international cuisine...well, North American

Our last foray for food was into old Nice for some socca, a chickpea-
based street food popular in Provence and the Ligurian coast; we never
found any...too early one day, too late another...next time...

Nice Out-Takes, 2

Back in the flea market one Monday, at the build-your-
own lamp or chandelier table

Thus

Doing a haka at the Maori stand

By the time we owned our third house, we had a key

ring that size...still have it somewhere...includes three or 

four campers, too

Love these scenes, the Mediterranean color

And the plant life

10€ will give you a chance at a grand cru...or, more likely, a 2€ Algerian swill

A controversial figure in Bolshevism, sort of a minister
of culture and education until Lenin's death, then falling from
favor to become the USSR's ambassador to Spain...but died
en route, in Menton; not a bad place to die, especially of natural
causes, unlike his arch-enemy Trotsky

At a favorite store in old town, French dish towels by the yard

Pick your poison, upscale canister set

At a chocolate fabricant, chocolate-filled imitations of Nice's
beach pebbles; the blue chair is probably not edible

Still processing...a bouchere?

Nice has the usual array of churches, almost as numerous as the
bars; all of them up-to-the-hilt Baroque; this is one of the more minor
parish churches

Jeff Bezos note: the lost parcel shop...similar to the wine
mystery box scheme above...plop some money down for a "lost"
parcel, and who knows what treasures you'll receive...see
rules below

Click to enlarge...not much information about where
the parcels came from or why they're "lost"

We are now in the luggage section of Nice's Carrefour 
Hypermarche...the list hanging down [click to enlarge] is
of various airlines' carry-on restrictions 

Unlikely statues outside the stately Negresco

Boy will be assholes...I mean, boys...not even American, amazingly

The old traditions live on in rural France

"I'm sorry, monsieur, but we are out of the lavender shorts in your
size...perhaps we can obtain them tomorrow from our St. Tropez store"