mercoledì 16 maggio 2012

Week 17 Trip to Nice

Lots of things have happened in April. Easter, Daniele's birthday, the horse fair Roma Cavalli, a friend's first communion and the last week-end of April we went to Nice where my husband ran the half marathon. It was a nice week-end, only the trip to and from Nice was a bit tiring as we went by car and it's about 700 km from Rome. We left on Thursday night because my husband preferred to drive without the children quarrelling all the time. He drove almost all night and stopped to sleep a bit a few times and in the morning we arrived to the Cote d'Azur. We had booked an apartment in Cagnes sur Mer, about 12 km from Nice. We could chek in only in the afternoon, so we went to the centre of Cagnes to have breakfast and then headed off to St. Paul de Vence, a beautiful little village up on a hill where lots of artists have come to paint. It's full of art galleries and it's very pictoresque. The photo of the week is from St. Paul de Vence.
Then we went to the beach of Cagnes, but it was so windy, so you couldn't swim and the water was very cold too.

In the afternoon we went to Nice to get the bag with the marathon number and then we bought some bread, macarons and other pastries from one of the boulangeries in Cagnes. They have such good bread and pastries in France and there are bakery shops everywhere.

Despite the windy day Daniele, Sofia and Carlotta took a swim in the pool on the roof of our residence.
Next day we visited Cannes and Antibes and went to meet Armando's old class mate who lives near Nice. He was very happy with his life in Nice and he lived in residence inside a huge park. Today the weather was nice and the water so calm that it would have been nice to take a bath in the sea, but we hadn't brought our swim suits and towels. The children got to swim in Armando's friend's pool anyway.

Next morning the weather had changed completely and it was grey and rainy. It was the marathon day and we all went to Nice. Luckily enought it wasn't as bad as the weather forecast had foreseen and it soon stopped raining. Armando managed to run his marathon and was very satisfied.

The we went to our apartment to eat lunch and in the afternoon back to visit Nice. It's a beautiful town! We walked along Promenade des Anglais, went to the main shopping area, walked up to the Castle park where you had a beautiful view over Nice and in the evening we went out to eat in a nice Bistrot with Armando's friend and his wife.

Next day was a travelling day. It was raining in Nice. We drove through Monaco and wanted to go to the aquarium in Genova, but all the parking lots were full and in the end it got so late so it wasn't worth to park far from the aquarium and get there by bus anymore, so we continued and went to see the leaning tower of Pisa instead on our way to Rome.

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