After posting some pics on another forum I started to wonder whether I actually posted pics of my holiday in south France a few months ago. I wanted to, but somehow always forgot, so, if you want to have a look, here are some:


The bay of Nice:





Me, of course:






The sea is so hot in that pic, isn't it?






Alright, alright!

Let's continue with the less important, but still beautiful pics of the places I have been to.














You may have seen those places in a certain movie already!





I love Nice, it's such a beautiful place. I love its flair and weather and just everything about it.


Has anyone else been there?
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Loving that first beach pic, the water looks beautiful!

It is all so colorful, very pretty!

Cool .

No I just have been to Paris and different highways that lead to Paris .

Is it expensive ?
Would you like to live there?
Why do we rarely hear about Nice as a tourist´s place, at least not as much as we hear about Barcelona,Mallorca,Malaga,Loret de Mar,Sicily, Corsica or any other place?

How is the food?
How long are you staying there?

Do you speak French?

Did you talk about Under the Cherry Moon with anybody from Nice?

Dave1992 said:

National Lampoon's European Vacation right?


J/K!! Beautiful pictures and you are a cutie pie!!

great pix as always Dave!


I love the watch you're wearing, but don't ever wear those sunglasses again.

These pictures are awesome!! I would love to visit Nice and other cities in France.

Stunning pictures Dave...

Including the florist was very thoughtful

Lovely indeed

Dave1992 said:

The red building in the background reminds me of the Matisse Museum.



I lived in Cannes, France for 4 months in college (study abroad) and visited Nice several times - mostly to go to different museums. I liked their modern art museum a lot. The rest of the city never really grew on me; I preferred Cannes, maybe because I was more familiar with it.

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KoolEaze said:

Yes, it's quite expensive. The whole south of France is way more expensive than the north, excluding Paris, of course. The food is expensive, the phone bills are stunningly high, houses and apartments are expensive, everything is. But for those two weeks it was definitely worth it.

I would definitely want to live there, and even if it meant I would have to live in a tiny apartment with only a small kitchen, a bed, a shower, my piano and my guitars in. That's the Niee flair, somehow. People are home just to sleep and get dressed, actually - they live outside way more than people in Austria do, for example. They get up in the morning and buy something to eat at the marketplace, drink some coffee, go to the beach, drink red wine all day long, ... They even rather go to internet cafés, instead of using a computer at home. And I love all that.

I think that Nice isn't so popular as a tourist place mainly because it's quite expensive, and what I also think, because it just has too much style. Everybody on the streets has their own role somehow and it all clicks together in a distant, but friendly way. People don't suck up to each other when they don't need to, which is often described as the French arrogance... Personnaly, I find it way more honest and straight-forward. You do get a smile by keepers at a bar, but you are there to get a drink and that's what you pay them for, for example.


I am a vegetarian, I don't eat meat (which includes fish). In Nice they understandibly eat loads of fish, but I loved the food, because they also have many vegetarian dishes and they are delicious!
Ratatouille, for example, is from Nice originally, and so are Crèpes!

I've been there for two weeks with my class, as a part of a language holiday. I've been studying French for 5 years now.

The first thing I did when we arrived was asking locals how to get to a "fountain with a statue of a naked men in front, with a building on which it says something about 'Nice' behind". Nobody I asked there knew anything about Prince and even less about UTCM...

Imago said:

Thanks, Dan


I actually bought them sunglasses on the beach in Nice; African people walk around there all day long, trying to sell stuff like that for ridiculous prices (ridiculous meaning a lot!). He really wanted me to pay 25€ for those sunglasses; I said "5 or I'll buy them off the next guy that walks over!"

I love them!

jone70 said:

I've been to the Matisse Museum, too and it was very interesting. But that building right there is an average building near the beach (see, that's also something I love about Nice - the architecture).

I had a trip to Cannes and I liked it, especially the beach with the sky-high palms!

Thank you all for the nice responses

Dave1992 said:

Thanks for the very informatioive response, I really appreciate it.
I used to be a strict vegetarian too, from 1999-2004 but then I changed my diet.And I used to be able to speak french when I was in my teens/early 20s.
Gotta refresh my French skills again, you really made me want to go to France again.

KoolEaze said:

I learned French at school for 4 years and rarely remember anything :boxed.: It's shame . I could have tried to maintain the level I had by talking it when I was in Belgium, France or Switzerland, but I never did . I am just happy I was not as stupid when it comes to English .