Villa la Lezardiere
Travel Blogs from Nice
Monaco: The best of it all in one little country
... water is calm and blue and the sunlight dances on the tiny ripples even on a cloudy day. The people are friendly and the streets are lined with charming old buildings full of boutiques, homes, and gelato (mmmmmmmm).
A short trip around the hill takes you from the harbor to where the rich and famous play... The Hotel de Paris, Casino Monte-Carlo, Gucci, Prada, Versace, and more ...
Day 16 - The Monte Carlo
... It can be quite disorienting to when your used to paying the person that serve you and ten they ask you in another language to pay elsewhere! It was a very good croissant though! It had a subtle salty taste which was nice :). After strolling through the small streets for a whole we went back to the hotel to book another night and pay for some wifi. We made good use of the wifi too, you tuning comedians and then quickly looking up trains for the ...
We return to the ancestral manse
... journey: We visited the cemetery where Marc Chagall is buried and placed small stones on his grave. Then Annie and Paula went to the little tourist office, just across from the estate agent’s where we found La Golondrina. The office was able to supply Annie with the phone number of her dear friend, the artist and St Paul fixture Nanou. Since Nanou speaks almost no English, Paula translated. They made arrangements for us to visit Nanou at her house and studio the next ...
Train day
Today we are determined to get from Nice Ville to Girona via train. This sounds fun and we are set up with the benefit of a Eurail pass. This will be eventful, sent Nat off and I think she already missed her train, no way to contact her so fingers crossed she's ok.
I'll live blog it considering there's no wifi.
10:30- hand off Keys and look for cab
11:00- attempt to book our train, no seats left, rail pass ...
Menton to Nice
... of any size in Italy is Ventimiglia so that was our destination for a cappuccino (thanks for the idea, Monna!) just so we could say we had been in Italy, too. When in the town it appeared to me a little more run-down than the French towns a few kilometres west. Perhaps we only saw the lower-income area of the town approaching from the west; nonetheless, it did seem dingier and less friendly to pedestrians than the French Riviera villages.
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