Trenton Transit Center
2023年9月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
And so it begins.
Taking a train to EWR
Barry dropped me off at Trenton
AirTran change
2023年9月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
This is very easy to do. I had no problem at all
UA Club Terminal C
2023年9月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F
Of course the one right next to my gate is under construction so I had to hoof it up to the one by Gate 123...which is still OK
In any case, past TSA (Prev does help) and firmly ensconced myself hereもっと詳しく
On the plane
2023年9月14日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 72 °F
Boarded on time, so hopefully will take off just the same
Welcome to Nice
2023年9月15日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
Breezed through the passport control and found my bus relatively easy.
On my way to Antibes
Boulangerie de la Gare
2023年9月15日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 79 °F
Arrived Antibes in about 40 mins later, my honey met me at the bus stop, and we grabbed a fast Plat du jour of aioli and carbonara at this place. We don't have to be at our appointment til 3pm...
Our Apartment
2023年9月15日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
We took a leisurely walk through some streest of old city to our apartment, which is located on a "Typical European Mediterranean street".
It's a 1BR apartment with a kitchen...although I'm not sureもっと詳しく
Viex Carre - Old Town Antibes
2023年9月15日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 79 °F
After taking a bit of rest and much needed shower, we spent the early evening wandering the streets and squares of the Old Town - which is where our apt is.
Antibes is a very old town, first foundedもっと詳しく
Bastion St. Jaume
2023年9月15日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
We made our way to Bastion St. Jaume, which is remnants of ol time city walls protecting the town and Port Vauban - old Port of Antibes.
After having housed a temple and then a chapel in Roman times,もっと詳しく
Dinner, well sort of
2023年9月15日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F
Returning back to old town. We didn't really feel like a "full" dinner and decided instead on some yummy Gelato.
And so ended our first day in Antibes
Amour Café
2023年9月16日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F
Had a very nice and relaxing sleep which was needed after full 1.5 days of travel.
Waking up and looking for a place to have some petit-déjeuner came upon this place.
Right around the corner from us,もっと詳しく
Market Provençal
2023年9月16日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
Finishing with breakfast we set off to visit a museum and passed the famous Marché Provençal on the way...
....er... Methinks I'll let the pictures do the talking.
All I know is that it would driveもっと詳しく
Walk along Promenade Amiral de Gasse
2023年9月16日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
A beautiful walk on The Promenade. For History nuts like me, it is named after François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse, Marquis of Grasse-Tilly (13 September 1722 – 11 January 1788), who was a careerもっと詳しく
Picasso Museum
2023年9月16日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F
The Château Grimaldi was originally built in the late fourteenth century as the residence of the town's feudal lords Marc and Luc Grimaldi, scions of the famous Grimaldi Dynasty, and has borne theirもっと詳しく
Museum 2
2023年9月16日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F
The collection includes works by other artists, including Nicolas de Staël ( 3rd and 4th photos), sunning, IMHO, oils on textile by Claude Garache (5-7) and a 3-D thumb prints
Museum Courtyard
2023年9月16日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F
Various sculptures on display and beautiful view of Mediterranean
Also, I forgot to mention that today was a freebie entrance day for museums, so we got lucky. You can see the line qued in when weもっと詳しく
Antibes Cathedral
2023年9月16日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F
Official name: Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculée-Conception d'Antibes or Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Platea d'Antibes.
Of course, Wikipedia provides great information; check it outもっと詳しく
More streets of Old Town
2023年9月16日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F
We continued meandering on the streets of Old Town, eventually making to The Garden of Poets with a small bust of Victor Gugo that has his Homge to the Antibes:
"Everything here shines, everythingもっと詳しく
Le Petite Lunch
2023年9月16日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
As we walked through the streets, many servers started hustling folks sitting outside to inside. Although it was pretty much the same overcast as it has been since morning, we figured they know whatもっと詳しく
Archeological Museum
2023年9月16日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F
We can see clearly now - the rain is gone.
And so we sashayed (after 14:00 the French don't saunder, so we follow the suit 😉) to the Archeological Museum which turned to be like 100 meters fromもっと詳しく
By the walls of Bastion Saint Andre
2023年9月16日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F
We came out on the other side of the Bastion to see more Roman ruins, a small dog park, and a back terrace of The Golden Beef restaurant (we skipped that one). We then continued on the old ramparts toもっと詳しく
British/ French monument
2023年9月16日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F
Intrigued by both British and French flags flying we made our way past the end of the parapet to that monument. Turned out this was to commemorate the act of HMS Unbroken (P42) - Royal Navy U-classもっと詳しく
Le Very Happy Hour
2023年9月16日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
..and what luck it may be, that we got into the neighborhood shortly after The Happy Hour started. 😊😉😇🍷🧉
Technically I could say Le Petit - Happy Hours ARE petit by nature no matter howもっと詳しく
Le Petit Dinner
2023年9月16日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 75 °F
Yeah... looks like Du Jour de Le Petites...
We had an inkling of stopping at Lyonese Charcuterie, but Happiness is a Fickle thing and time (which is too slow for thise who wait) turned "too fast" forもっと詳しく
Bon Jour and back to L' Ardoise
2023年9月17日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F
Sometimes, it is quite tough to be in a foreign country with different customs. 😕
We really wanted to go back to Cafe Amore, but they were not opening until 10:00am...and so, for that matter ofもっと詳しく








































































































































































































































