Tag: French Riviera
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”, […]
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 […]