Monday, September 17, 2012


Friday 7th September 2012.  Nice, France

Hot sunny morning with haze across sea and hills. Great breakfast at Star Hotel, very nice bread and mini croissants, pain au chocolate, and discovered the joys of fig jam.

Managed to figure out ticket vending machine at tram and got day pass for €4 each and took it down to beach. The electric trams here are quite new (2007) very nicely fitted out inside, run almost silently  currently just on one line but they have plans to extend that and add another two. Where they run across the open square for maybe 400 metres there are no overhead lines and they run on battery power. Also have a section  of the track which has grass all around it. Very clever.
 

Once at the beach we hired bikes,  free for first half hour  €1 next half hour and then €3 hour after that, and rode around to the port area, many large gin palaces tied up in harbour, small yachts racing just off  end of the point. I rode further down the beach front past all the apartment blocks.

 

Then found ourselves a relatively shady spot beside a lifeguards tower and spent the next 2 hours on the beach , swimming, reading paper and sleeping. The beach at Nice is all stony, people lie on it sunbathing  and actually getting into water is quite difficult because the stones are quite loose. Definitely need to wear shoes here.

 
 
 

 Lunch from the Mono Prix supermarket at end of our street and a siesta back in our room.

In evening took tram around closer to harbour and had dinner at a small vegetarian restaurant Lynds had read about in NZ Herald travel pages. Food quite nice but fixed menu, had about 5 courses and was €35 each which was somewhat extravagant for us. Wander around the port area and back to hotel on tram again.

Tonight the rubbish got collected at the early hour of 11 pm.

 

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