The French Riviera

Today we went to see the Rothschild Villa and Gardens, which are a bit to the East of Nice, on a peninsula called Cap Ferrat. It was finished in 1912, and has some incredible gardens and views of the French Riviera.  We then walked down along the coast and caught the 100 bus at the train station to get back to Nice.

I have to say, I never thought I'd get to tour the famous French Riviera (Côte d'Azur (Azure (ie blue) Coast) in French). You always hear about it, but it really is quite pretty and I'd definitely recommend visiting if you get the chance. We didn't visit Cannes or Saint Tropez based on the reviews of how over-rated they were, but Nice is definitely worth the trip! I'd definitely go back, and I want to see some of the hill-top villages like Saint-Paul-de-Vence which I'm sad we had to miss.

The bus was still pretty confusing today though too. I was trying to get a day pass for 5 euros, but both of the buses we tried didn't sell them, and none of the tabac shops were open since it was Sunday. Luckily they did take small bills. The first one we got on was the 100, figuring we could transfer somewhere down the line on the 81 which would take us to the Rothschild mansion. But after we got off to take some photos and wait for the 81 to come by, he wouldn't accept our previous ticket and said we had to buy new ones. We should have just waited for the #81 to begin with. It was also a bit difficult to figure out when to hit the "stop" button since there was but a single map on the bus, but by using my phone GPS I could mostly figure it out. This is why I find metro so much easier to figure out than the bus. Though once you've ridden the bus once, it's usually OK. It's just much harder to pre-plan.

Oh and we did finally find the new location for bus #100 and #81 in Nice, which is at the Segurane bus stop, and not at JC Bermond like everywhere on the Internet says.

After wandering through the Nice Old Town (Vieux Nice) for a while, we stumbled upon an Indian food place and decided to check it out since we hadn't eaten Indian since moving to France. And it was good! Expensive of course, but good! After wandering around a bit more, watching the fountains in the main square do their thing, and discovering we were slightly too late to ride the Ferris wheel, we headed back to our hotel with some crepes for dessert in our hands. Our train leaves tomorrow morning at 7:35am so we've got another early start. No wonder we sleep in so late when we don't have to get up early!