sunny weekend away

me and andy

Early Friday morning Andy and I hopped on the bus, to the tube, to the train to arrive at the airport to set off to Nice...as we flew over the city towards the airport I was amazed at the blue, blue water! It was an absolutely amazing color, and looked just as amazing once we were walking along the promenade.

andy at sunset

We spent the weekend exploring the different ares of Nice, lounging on the beach, eating lovely food (fish, mussels, scallops, pizza, pastries, etc) and a glass of wine or two. Friday we spent getting oriented and used to the sun in the sky. We explored along the promenade and into old town a bit, called Ville Nice. Saturday we explored a bit more through old town, found a great market, and then headed for the beach! We went to a private beach so that we could get a lounger and towels, as well as food and drink service right to the lounger (they do a great job overall in having some private beach and then public beach all along the waterfront). Dinner that night was seafood all the way down in the port area.

me, working hard to avoid my skirt blowing up in the wind!

champagne on the beach

Sunday we took the 20 minute train ride up the coast to Monaco. I'm glad that we went, but it was not as glamorous or posh as I expected. It also wasn't that pretty of an area. Nice, and some of the small Riviera towns that we past through on the train, were much nicer. And speaking of glamor, Andy "gambled" away 20 euro's in 5 hands of video poker inside of THE casino in Monte Carlo. Very glamorous indeed.

monaco

The people, food and weather were all really, really lovely in Nice. Something else that was great was the wine - the wines of the area were cheap, but always really good. I wish we had gone for longer than 4 days, it's a place I would go back to. Even though I'm not a fan of swimming or water sports, I just adore the warm weather vacation at the beach (and thankfully, Andy's a fan too)! Next time we go, we'll bring Midnight along, I must have commented on all the cute dogs there about every 5 minutes, it was great!

little maltese on a shop counter