I’m
writing this from the balcony of our AirBnB in Nice. The whole city and yes,
the Mediterranean, is layed out before me.
This is our first “room with a view.”
This means it’s up on a hill and we can’t easily access a bakery or
something for breakfast.
We
have decided NOT to go to Cannes - rather the kids decided - and it seems silly
for me to be the one being the celebrity chaser. Why do I always like the idea of seeing
someone famous?
We all like this place we’re staying.
It’s sort of small, but we finally have a room where we can hang out
together and watch TV. We watched
“Murder Mystery” when we arrived as it is based in Monte Carlo and Lake
Como. Then we drove downtown to BuBu
Burger, which we heard about on a YouTube video describing its wonderful smash
burgers! They were really good -
especially for somebody like me who likes their meat well-cooked. We all agreed that if those burgers could be
made to order with our favorite ingredients, they would be the best burgers in
the world. And we were served by the guy
from the video! So there’s our
celebrity.
After
supper, we strolled around awhile - first separating for about 30 minutes. Then we went down to the beach for a little
while. I think we will return to that
spot today. We found an easy-to-use
parking garage there if we can’t find street parking. I wouldn’t mind having another burger at some
point, but perhaps we need to try some French food.
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| This street performer was really good, and I admired that he lugged this piano around |
This morning, Terry and I were going to go to brunch by ourselves, but then the kids
woke up and wanted to come. The place I
had picked out happened to be on a street where there was construction and even
jackhammering, so we looked for a quieter place. Found a café where we could eat outside. The waitress was so nice (we did NOT run into
ANY rude French people on this trip). Most
of us had a Croque Monsieur or Croque Madame (with egg), but Terry had a fancy
omelette.
Then we split up again. Terry and I mostly walked along the water.
For supper, I chose a place near us that got good reviews - Le Bouchon.
It was a classic French restaurant.
I had a risotto - good but not as good as
I’ve had in Greece.
We all enjoyed our
food though, and we shared a bottle of wine (not sweet enough for me).
Our waitress was really sweet in trying to
explain the menu to us in English.
There
definitely seemed to be more and better English speakers in Italy than in
France.
We got back in time to enjoy sunset from our balcony.
Also, the road up to our place was so hilly that it has been part of the Tour de France. See the sign below.
