After another breakfast with plenty of fruit, we said goodbyes Sinead’s uncle & aunt – Martin & Joan and their daughter Gillian and her husband Nick and daughter Savannah.
Then off to pack, and we were on the road just after 9.30am, with a course plotted for the ancient village of Vence, some 30 klm away. The journey had spectacular views as we wound our way up the steep hills, with Dot clicking away furiously on the camera. We passed through a number of small villages, one with a castle perched high above the village.
We made Vence some 1.5hours after heading off and the entrance seemed just like any other town on a steep hillside. However we entered the town centre and parked and made our way to the Tourism Office, where we got a map and were told of the ancient city part……roman roads, walled city. engraved stones dating back to 229AD.
It was a fascinating walk around the old town inside the wall, and taking in the 28 points of interest.
3 Euros for parking and we were then off to Nice, arriving near our apartment around 2.00pm, BUT NO PARKING NEARBY AND OUR GPS LADY taking a lot of time to come with routes to alternate parking facilities. After much driving around, we made the decision to head to the Nice Airport and return the rental car and then catch a taxi to our apartment.
We had fun getting to Terminal 2 at the airport, taking wrong turns on a couple of occasions, which necessitated a big loop often through narrow streets to get back to the airport entrance. Rental cars by the 100s were being returned and collected. Then our challenge was to find the location of the taxi rank……a number of different directions ended retracing our steps.
We got to our accommodation, after 4.00pm and have a small little apartment with a couch that doubles as fold out single beds. Dot confirms our Monaco tour booking for tomorrow afternoon and then attempts to connect with Wi-Fi for her various electronics.
We went for a stroll on the promenade, above the beach, which consists of very large pebbles…no sand to be seen!! The various hotels or restaurants have umbrellas and “banana” lounge chairs or cubicles on their section of quarantined beach.
Did some shopping at the supermarket for breakfast and lunch tomorrow. Following dropping off the shopping we went out to a Chinese restaurant nearby for our evening meal after no lunch. The Seafood clay-pot and the sweet&sour shrimps was enjoyed by us both. The clay-pot had black seaweed, which was very tasty and nutty.
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