Nice to host Tour de France in June 2020
The Tour de France racers are finished for 2019, and I’m already excited about next year’s race. Why? Because Nice will be the host city, and it will feature the Grand Départ, which is the first stage of the race and is […]
Nice Tramway T2 Update
So, I’m a little obsessed with the tramway in Nice. The world just got a little better for all the travelers to Nice that land at the Nice Airport. On Friday 28 June 2019, two more stations on the Tramway T2 from […]
Is Nice a good choice for retirement?
Retiring in France, or to be more accurate, in Nice, has been on the forefront of my and B’s mind for awhile now. B loves France, so it makes sense that we picked a French city to be our retirement home. The […]
Riding the Velo Bleu in France
One of the greatest parts of Nice on the Côte d’Azur is the Promenade des Anglais. It is a seven-kilometer “walkway” that runs along the Mediterranean Sea from the Nice Airport to just short of the Lympia Port. There is a very […]
Tram T2 line construction update
“The Line 2 Tramway passed a decisive point in March.” Those words jumped out of the page at me when I opened the March/April copy of the Le Petit Niçois newspaper earlier this week. What did that mean? As a “tram enthusiast”, […]
Nice France Tram T2
When we arrived at the Nice airport earlier this week after our flight from New York, we thought it might be difficult to find the tram T2 line, get a ticket, and ride the tram towards Nice city. We were wrong, wrong […]
Crunch Time.
My Delta Airlines app just told me that I have 5 days and 19 hours until my trip to Nice starts. Oh boy… so much to do. Thank goodness we started planning our itinerary months ago and have been refining it most […]
Is riding a bike really like riding a bike?
One of the things we are going to do on our next trip to France is to rent and ride bikes. I looked up the rental part, but do I remember the riding a bike part? Bike riding is great for many […]
West-East Tram update
Update to a tram blog that I posted earlier 16 Dec 2018. I finally found an update on the Nice Tram Line 2 section near the Nice Airport. I couldn’t find it in English, so I translated a story that I saw […]
We rented the Velo Bleu last time we were in Nice. We kept mainly to the bike paths on the Promenade des Anglais and didn’t really notice the signs other than the ones painted on the path. I started thinking about the […]