Nice

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. 

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.