The French Riviera is very "Nice"

This past Easter weekend the program I went through took out group to the French Riviera. We stayed in Nice (sounds like Neece- but its hilarious to see signs saying "Nice this/ Nice that" everywhere!), but also visited Eze, Monaco, and St. Paul. All very beautiful! Plus I got to take my first TGV (the fastest train lines in Europe)! It was a beautiful weekend!


First impression of Nice- some guys chilling on a room (Karl says, people here just love to take in the senses and this was a perfect example).


The older part of Nice- higher up than the rest of the city and offering great views


Salt and Pepper shakers hugging... aw


Nice is Nice! Hello :)




The beach was absolutely amazing- especially on our final day. But one think I found after taking this photo was its similarity to some expressionists paintings (I am in art right now). You might know what I am talking about. Like the ones in museums that are composed of three horizontal strips and you think to yourself "My three year old (fill in blank) could do this!". Yep well, turn out such paintings were American landscape paintings. When I heard this, I chuckled a little out-loud in class like, op landscape my Bible. But as I was looking back on the pictures I had taken in Nice- I came upon this one and all of a sudden saw it. The three colors, the three horizontal lines, the landscape... it caught me off guard and surprisingly so! So although it is still a bit of a stretch, this is for all you skeptics out there of this sort of work :)


This was the Artisian Market (on Sunday they have a huge bundles of flower stands). They also sell food (olives and herbs are a big deal in Nice- again "the senses"). I bought some strawberries along the way and they were so good!








Many French individuals have a lush bundle of flowers or plants outside their window, but I have never seen cacti- I found it funny, out of place, and semi awkward- so I took a pic.


An upper view of Nice (p.s. I do not know this man- nor did I meet him)


They had so so much gallato options here! More than what we saw in Italy! Again because they have so many herbs and also flowers here- there were ice cream flavors like - lavender, rose, avocado, black olives, the Delta airplane shortbread like crackers (not their official title), coke, and so much more!




View from Eze


Church at Eze - Bono was married here



This is Monte Carlo in Monaco. They are about to have Formula 1 racing here soon- and IN the streets of the city (where we drove)!! You can see in the bottom left the stands they construct and destruct every year- they are elevated and really intense. Great location by the bay!


Of course there were plenty of ritzy cars.


This boy, posing next to a Roles Royce for his mom was too much :)



This is the city of St. Paul, a medieval village like Eze, and completely surrounded by a wall. Supposedly many artists chose to live here (like Matisse, Rodin and others) because the light was like nothing else! Our driver, Nathan said that second to Monte St. Micheal, this is the 2nd most visited site in France! (I had never heard of it prior!)





You could see the Mediterranean to one side, and the Alps to the other! Amazing!!




That's it!!!