Tag: travel to france
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]