Hotel Crillon Centre Nice

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Day 16 - The Monte Carlo

A travel blog entry by stephroberts

... 8364;5 and got €8.32 back ... WINNNING !!! Yay :D. We later enjoyed a €16 drink because we were in the Monte Carlo and why not. Jake and Todd got the James Bond martini's and meg and I got cosmopolitans. There's tasted like petrol and our was a lovely cranberry delight! Meg, jake and Todd all put €10 each on the black jack table. Both meg and jake bombed out on the first round and again on the first round after wasting another ...

We return to the ancestral manse

A travel blog entry by primaryendpoint

... As always, the venerable Colombe d’Or restaurant, which guarded the entrance to the village, was surrounded, like a swarm of black flies, by Mercedes, BMWs and Jaguars. The Colombe is stuffed with original art by the likes of Picasso and Matisse—in the 1920’s and 30’s these unknown and impoverished artists stayed at the hotel and the prescient owner accepted their painting as payment in lieu of cash.

Then we walked past the ...

Oh we do like to be beside the seaside!

A travel blog entry by ppape

Nice was great! We booked an apartment for the 4 nights, a bit different to staying in a hotel. The apartment was on what turned out to be one of the main tourist streets with heaps of cafes and boutiques. We walked all over the old city, took the bus tonAntibes and on another day took the bus to ...

More Côte D’Azur

A travel blog entry by maryandjeff

Mary's Impressions:
As I mentioned in a previous blog entry, Jeff and I visited some of the towns you'll find on the C�te D’Azur. Here’s a continuation of my impressions of the places we saw:

Cagnes-sur-Mer
In doing research on Cagnes-sur-Mer, the town’s tourist website was hard to navigate and it was not very user friendly in terms of gleaning information on what there’s to see and do here. Jeff and I wanted ...

Day 7 It's Nice in the French Riviera

A travel blog entry by katevoss

... smell all the different oils and all the different perfumes which was nice.
Next we hopped back on the bus and arrived in Monaco shortly after where we parked and walked up to the palace to have a look at it and also the amazing view over the harbour.

We then hopped back on the bus and went to the casino part of the city ...