Nice is normally crowded in the summer, but because of the attacks, tourism was down by 40%. We enjoyed being there with some elbow room.
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- Just a little French seaside villa of Ephrussi de Rothschild, of the banking family.
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- A banking heiress, she was born into a “limitless horizon of wealth”. She built the villa in 1905.
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- Don’t you just love a maintenance free yard?
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- Her passion for fine porcelain included this delicate soap dish candelabra.
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- Delightfully playful fountains are choreographed to Schubert.
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- A refreshing stop on a hot day.
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- A scale model (look at the tiny people!) for The Mastaba, a Christo sculpture for Abu Dhabi, a city in the United Arab Emirates.
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- A small sample of the final sculpture, yet to be built, will be a mosaic of 410,000 oil barrels rising out of the desert.
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- A side benefit? Each of the empty 55 gallon barrels make fun “music” when you hit them.
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- Old town in Nice.
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- Pétanque is perhaps the sport closest to French hearts. Similar to bocce, like horseshoes with balls.
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- Nice from above – the pebble beaches stretch for miles.
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- Look at this incredibly beautiful blue jellyfish.
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- My buddy Michèle, who bravely packed me a bottle of kombucha all the way from Paris.
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- Picnic lunch on the sea. Bill, Michèle, me, Mike and Bob. Are we listing?
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- Bill explaining that we should NOT have bananas on board a boat, because it causes bad luck fishing.
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- Mike caught and released this black fin tuna. Good thing he didn’t touch those bananas!
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- Checkmark on the Trip List Challenge 100 Things to See Before You Die!
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- Pretty pebbles, but it hurts to walk on this beach.
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- Our dear friend, Michèle, who thinks Nice pebble beaches being on a bucket list is crazy!
