NICE
Gary and Fongs are in Nice / Aix en Provence / Monaco from 19 to 22 July 2010
They are staying at Villa La Tour in Vieux Nice.
They are staying at Villa La Tour in Vieux Nice.
Joan's Top Picks for Nice
The Old Town (Vieux Nice) - where Joan used to live and when you get there, it's just pretty - I can't describe it.
While in the Old Town you must:
Wayne's - noisiest most gulo and most famous pub in Nice. People start dancing on top of tables and they have good bands. You must try their FOOD! All Day Breakfast for 9.99e is the best! BUSOG!
Go to Cathedrale Sainte Reparate - Joan loves it here. Here favourite church. When there is no mass, they play classical music. Beautiful. Joan had wanted to get married here someday... maybe still will, haha.
Visit Place Rossetti and have ice cream at Fenocchio (are you daring enough to try Tomato Basil or Beer flavour???)
Thor - my favourite bar on Cours Saleya. They are serving tapas now
Coffee shop at the corner across the post office - I can't believe I forgot its name but its my favourite...
Socca - YUMMY! on Rue Miralheti (where Joan lived, find number 4, rue Miralheti)
Zone Pietonne and Place Massena
Shopping area!!!
Very good pizza at Le Quebec and La Pizza
Promenade des Anglais
BEACH!!
Go ROLLERBLADING (can rent!) or BIKING!! (can rent too!)
Go up the Chateau!!
While in the Old Town you must:
Wayne's - noisiest most gulo and most famous pub in Nice. People start dancing on top of tables and they have good bands. You must try their FOOD! All Day Breakfast for 9.99e is the best! BUSOG!
Go to Cathedrale Sainte Reparate - Joan loves it here. Here favourite church. When there is no mass, they play classical music. Beautiful. Joan had wanted to get married here someday... maybe still will, haha.
Visit Place Rossetti and have ice cream at Fenocchio (are you daring enough to try Tomato Basil or Beer flavour???)
Thor - my favourite bar on Cours Saleya. They are serving tapas now
Coffee shop at the corner across the post office - I can't believe I forgot its name but its my favourite...
Socca - YUMMY! on Rue Miralheti (where Joan lived, find number 4, rue Miralheti)
Zone Pietonne and Place Massena
Shopping area!!!
Very good pizza at Le Quebec and La Pizza
Promenade des Anglais
BEACH!!
Go ROLLERBLADING (can rent!) or BIKING!! (can rent too!)
Go up the Chateau!!
AIX-EN-PROVENCE
Joan's picks for Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en Provence is Paul Cezanne country -- go visit his studio (photo shown above)
I love the coffee shops here -- here are my top picks!
5) La Belle Epoque
Right on the Cours Mirabeau and offering great happy-hour specials, La Belle Epoque is a great cafe for people-watching the afternoon away in Aix.
4) Le Bouddoir
Set back from the main drag on picturesque Place des Tanneurs, Le Bouddoir is the perfect place for a coffee or a pre-dinner drink in Aix.
3) Jacob's
Dotted throughout Aix, Jacob’s cafes are bursting with baked goods of all kinds. Get an outdoor table and much away in buttery bliss.
2) Riederer
With two locations in Aix, this cafe / patisserie is the best cafe in Aix for afternoon tea or coffee with pastries.
1) Les Deux Garcons - Joan's favourite!!
Always a favorite, Les Deux Garcons is essential to any cafe crawl in Aix-en-Provence.
I love the coffee shops here -- here are my top picks!
5) La Belle Epoque
Right on the Cours Mirabeau and offering great happy-hour specials, La Belle Epoque is a great cafe for people-watching the afternoon away in Aix.
4) Le Bouddoir
Set back from the main drag on picturesque Place des Tanneurs, Le Bouddoir is the perfect place for a coffee or a pre-dinner drink in Aix.
3) Jacob's
Dotted throughout Aix, Jacob’s cafes are bursting with baked goods of all kinds. Get an outdoor table and much away in buttery bliss.
2) Riederer
With two locations in Aix, this cafe / patisserie is the best cafe in Aix for afternoon tea or coffee with pastries.
1) Les Deux Garcons - Joan's favourite!!
Always a favorite, Les Deux Garcons is essential to any cafe crawl in Aix-en-Provence.
MONACO
After scaling Monaco’s steep terraced steps, shiny escalators and gleaming marble corridors tunnelling through the rocks to a series of free public lifts running up and down the hillside (not to mention navigating the 3D road system encircling its towering high rises!), you could be forgiven for thinking you’re inside a life-size MC Escher illustration of an illusionary maze.
Squeezed into 1.95 sq km, making it the world’s second smallest country, after the Vatican, this pint-sized principality is a sovereign state, with its own red-and-white flag, national holiday (19 November), country telephone code and traditional Monégasque dialect. French is the official language, although many street signs, especially in the old Monaco Ville quarter, are in French and Monégasque, and children of all 107 nationalities that form Monaco’s population are required to study the language at school. Neither is Monaco part of the EU, but because of its close ties with France it participates in the EU customs territory, and there are no border formalities crossing to and from France.
Monaco is most famed for its glamorous Monte Carlo casino, Formula One cars roaring through the streets during its glamorous Grand Prix, and the scintillating lives of its glamorous royal family, the Grimaldis.
Squeezed into 1.95 sq km, making it the world’s second smallest country, after the Vatican, this pint-sized principality is a sovereign state, with its own red-and-white flag, national holiday (19 November), country telephone code and traditional Monégasque dialect. French is the official language, although many street signs, especially in the old Monaco Ville quarter, are in French and Monégasque, and children of all 107 nationalities that form Monaco’s population are required to study the language at school. Neither is Monaco part of the EU, but because of its close ties with France it participates in the EU customs territory, and there are no border formalities crossing to and from France.
Monaco is most famed for its glamorous Monte Carlo casino, Formula One cars roaring through the streets during its glamorous Grand Prix, and the scintillating lives of its glamorous royal family, the Grimaldis.
