The reason we didn’t see much of Nice

Our first day in Nice we planned to take a beach and city exploration day. Then it rained. So we swapped up our plans and decided to head off to Eze and Monaco. The bus ride out was so spectacular that when it was sunny our second (and last) day, we decided to head out to Eze again, just for the coastal drive along the way (the Dutch guy with a car from our hostel in Marseille had caught up to us at this point…long story…). Sandra and I really enjoyed Eze, it was small and only took a few hours to really see, but the winding streets were incredibly enjoyable nonetheless. And incredibly hard to photograph. Oy, difficult lighting. Narrow, winding streets with all sorts of weird rooftops throwing the light around in all sorts of weird shady ways, I hardly took any pictures because I just knew my camera couldn’t do what it needed to get the shots to turn out decently. Oh well. Wandering the alleyways was great, as the was the drive out and back, and driving made it especially great because we could see a great coastal view and randomly pull over the car to hop out and take in the scene. Great scenes; dramatically steep craggy coastline dropping straight into the deep blue med sea, going off into the distance until water blended perfectly with sky. Build me a villa on one of those cliffs, please and thank you!