EUR06-Nice

Nice

Nice, France, is a nice place. I first heard the correct pronunciation from Toff (NEEEESE). I guess I was quite excited because we get to say goodbye to tomato, cheese and olive oil of the Italy. Lisa and I watched "The Killers" the other day and the opening 5 minutes was shot in Nice, we enjoyed that 5 minutes even though it was a really crappy movie.


Hill

Climb, climb, climb and you see nice beach view from top of the hill. Behind is a park with the view of a port.

Beach

No sand, mostly rounded stone. Lisa took 2kg of stone home for her next art design project. Too cold, cannot swim but I enjoyed walking on the promenade, leisure and relax, a good break between intensive traveling.


Food

 

 

The hotel conceirge didn't fail us, both recommendations were excellent. The first one we went was Le Safari near the antique and flower market. Here, we have antipasti, fish and lamb.

someone wanna go here for TRUFFLE menu, but no open cos holiday

So we went to Le Grand Balcon, when the concierge guy read the name of this restaurant in French, I had no fucking idea what he was trying to say, until he wrote the name on our map, I was like OHHH WTF, Grand Balcon. Truffle menu (even for dessert, OMG), god bless the truffle girl. I had fish instead.

 

We stopped by a cafe after some intensive walking, all chairs in the shop were facing the street, very interesting layout. Here we played the "count the passing by Asian" game, we counted only 1 Asian in the end.

very 癡纏 couple (right side)

The Hotel

 

Hotel Palais de la Mediterranee on the English Promenade. We were lucky to get a room with beach view plus free champagne (pro tip: honeymoon upgrade). I drank too much and later cannot eat anything for 2 days...



Random

 pirates candy

bird scissors

OK, now this is cheap

Jaume statue near Massena (Old Town?)

the roof top of contemporary museum, got nice view also

Next stop = Paris!
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