Our last meal had to be seafood and ended up being at Le Gambetta in Nice. I say ended up because Nice restaurants have an allergy towards letting people know when their restaurants are actually open. I went to two permanently closed restaurants(?) before settling on Le Gambetta which was apparently a local favourite. By this time my mum was […]
When I arrived in Cannes in the afternoon I was extremely hangry from not being fed in Antibes. Thankfully La Gallette de Marie came to the rescue with its generous and affordable crepes. The restaurant was a short 15 minute walk from the station, had an unfussy and clean interior with only one table occupied when we arrived. I ordered […]
Cannes was pretty much what I expected it to be. Shiny, full of yachts and pretty flashy. We started off at the port to look at more yachts. This was out of habit more than anything else as it was the last day of our trip and I was pretty yachted out. Neither of us were gamblers so we weren’t […]
I’m going to be honest with you; I didn’t remember particularly enjoying Antibes. However this was mainly because all the restaurants I wanted to go to were closed and I was super hangry by the end of my visit. If you are to visit you should bring snacks because visiting outside of the tourism season is a brave choice. Port […]
As part of my policy to visit a fancy home in every country I visit, Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild was definitely up my alley. Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild This seaside villa was built against all the odds and frankly against all advice from the whims of Baroness Béatrice de Rothschild from the years 1906 to 1912. Beatrice came from the […]
The restaurant I’d planned to visit wasn’t open, likely because it wasn’t tourism season, so I ended up eating at Lou Bantry by process of elimination. It fit my criteria of being actually open, nearby, affordable and frankly I was too hungry to care. Lou Bantry had a very strong blue nautical theme which was kitschy almost to the point […]
I visited Villefranche sur mer because I heard it was a chilled area that wasn’t too touristy, whilst being very accessible from Nice. This was all true, but the place was perhaps a bit too chilled for me and half a day was more than enough to see everything that was actually open in this small town. The first place […]
Èze Village was highly recommended online as a beautiful hilltop village near Nice, however I nearly struck this off my list for one simple reason. It was bloody difficult to plan into my day. Travel There were two main ways to get there from Nice: take a train to Èze Sur Mer station and either hike over half an hour, […]
Chickpea flour pancakes, or socca, is a popular traditional dish in Nice and I was interested in trying out this inexpensive flatbread in a traditionally expensive part of France. One restaurant that kept popping up in my research was Chez Pipo near port Lympia, an easily accessible establishment which started in 1923. So one afternoon I located the restaurant via […]
The heart of Nice was a breeze to reach from the airport with the sleek and modern tram system linking the two easily. We arrived at our hotel within the hour of leaving the airport and after setting down our bags were ready to explore our surroundings. Avenue Jean Médecin Our location was very central in Avenue Jean Médecin, a […]