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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 […]
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 […]
This is what happened on the way to studying French
It is believed that there are over 75 million native French speakers and about 235 million people use French daily and are fluent. I am not one of them. I have to admit up front that my French is very poor. We […]
Tram Line from Nice Airport to Nice Port open? Sort of.
We have tickets to Nice for April and we are very excited to go. While making our travel plans, we thought about ways to get from Nice Airport to the city center where we are going to stay. There were taxis […]
$348 to France from the D.C. area?
OMG… Not sure life could be much better, right? Not so fast. Although the airlines have been flooding social media with airline ticket deals, there is always a catch. The latest trick is for airlines to list the prices for basic economy […]
Inspiration
Inspiration What inspires a person to leave their birth country to move and retire in a completely foreign country? For some it is lower cost of living (money) and for others it is for the travel. For us, it is quality of […]
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 […]