Nice is so nice

So after Cannes, we spent about a week in Nice, waiting to get Beau's passport back from the Russian Consulate in Paris. The first two days were sunny and beautiful. Our hotel was directly on the Promenade des Anglais, that iconic C-shaped pedestrian walkway on the Mediterranean Sea that you see in every photo of Nice. The rest of the days were unfortunately overcast and/or rainy, but it still wasn't very cold compared to Moscow and since we were on vacation it really wasn't that big of a deal.

Jogger on Promenade des Anglais @ sunset

Nice's Park Messena water fountains in full glory on a glorious day.

The no-sleep, short-nap party continued in Nice, so the days were not AS action-packed as they used to be when it was just Scott and me visiting a new city (depends on how you define the term "action-packed," because we were really quite busy waking up every 3 hours, ugh.). So again spent a lot of time in the hotel room. 

Me and Beau, hangin' in the hotel room.

Beau demonstrating his maaad sitting skillz (and 'jazz hands' lower right)...

what, me SLEEP? what is this thing you call Sleep???

Nonetheless, we did still manage to hit up some museums and do a lot of strolling, people watching, and sipping of wine, coffee and FREE, POTABLE tap water, something you can't get in Russia! It's the little things, really. 

We went to the Matisse Museum and the Chagall Museum. Beautiful. 

There was a special chocolate 'show' in town that we'd seen advertised in Cannes for the following weekend (and we had actually lamented that we were *just* missing it, because we were going to Nice - little did we know!) and it turned out to be conveniently located right across the street from our hotel. We took it as a sign we were meant to go. Yum. 

mmm, chocolate!

Holiday chocolate figurines

Macarons at the chocolate show. 

We took a cute, old train called "Le Train des Pignes" on a picturesque ride up into the mountains to a quaint little village called Puget-Theniers, had a coffee / soda and walked around. 

old-fashioned train, old-fashioned photo

father and son ridin' the train :)

view from the train

Puget-Theniers and foggy mountains

happy little boy after his first train ride!

And then there was the eating...in Nice I was better about taking food photos vs Cannes. :)

Creme brûlée dessert from Yuca Mia. Gorgeous presentation and delicious tasting.

Food, glorious foooood!

So tired....but...Must. Eat. Moules.

All in all, a fun trip and a nice break from the grey-ness of Moscow in November.

"Merci, Nice, j'espere revenir bientot! Et encore, vraiment, je ne suis pas fatigue!!"