Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Nice is nice

We spent the day in Nice today, did the Rick Steves self-guided tour through the old town of Nice, taking us through the main Promendade where we got Socca, a Nicose specialty, which is a deliscious chickpea crepe. Then after getting a little lost, we found the famous gellateria we had heard so much about with many many crazy flavors of gellato. I got 1 boule - scoop - of blackberry and 1 boule of lavender, which was amazing. Then we lounged on the beach for awhile, it was a pebble beach which is slightly less comfortable than sand beaches but still near the lovely Mediterranian azur water. Next we climbed up to Castle Hill - which, of course, doesnt have a castle, but beautiful panaramic views of the city. Castle Hill is where the Greeks founded the city in 400 BC so all of the murals and ruins were beautiful examples of Greek architecture and art and mythology.

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