Nice

Le Cote d'Azur

The water is most certainly blue, there is no doubt about that. But is that all you really look for in a beach? I think good sand is necessary too. These beaches are rocky! No sand! and because its the Mediterranean Sea, there is no tide. None! If you look closely at the picture, you'll see all those chairs on the beach... they just stay there.

Somehow, all these crazy colors just work.

I'll tell you this, if anybody tried to paint the town's clocktower pink in the US... they would be sued.

And, as usual, there is no rhyme or reason to which way a road goes.

I read in my little tour book of France that Nice is known for painting buildings a "pompeeian red." I'm just guessing that the color of this building must be that (although, I don't really know).

And oddly enough, they had a Russian Orthodox Cathedral. Believe it or not, these greedy people wanted to charge three euro to see the inside of it! How obsurd for a church to charge an admission fee... the Notre Dame in Paris doesn't even do that, I'm not sure why they think they should be able to get away with it. Danielle and I both agreed that we wouldn't pay money to go to a church. :-)