Day 19 Our first frustrations

The day started out beautifully - great weather, good plan in place. We were going to rent Velo Bleu bikes and cruise Promenade des Anglais from one end to the other.

Bottom line is Velo Bleu won and I lost. I wasted at least 2 hours trying to get it to work - but in the end had to give up.

I set up an account, followed all the steps outlined, got to about step 4, called the number I was supposed to call - the voice message in French said “non valide” and it went back to the beginning. Soooooo frustrating.

Oh well, on to Plan B - a cultural day. First stop Musèe d’art moderne de Nice - closed on Monday. Next stop, Musèe Matisse, said to be the largest collection of his art in the world. After walking half way there, I googled it and it said it was closed from today until Oct 24.

OK, now what to do?? We headed back into the old city near the port, which resembles Cinque Terre with it narrow streets and buildings built into the hills. We had a lovely chat with a young priest outside Chapelle de la Visitation. He said the church still had a congregation of about 300 people, and he had come from another church to give the sermons for a few weeks.

The pics show other highlights we saw - Cimetière du Chateau - hate to think how much all those huge tombstones cost - lovely waterfall, Promenade du Paillon with its fountains, Marché des fleurs - a flea market with a lovely name but just lots of “stuff.”

After our initial frustrations, it actually turned out to be a fun day - and 15,201 steps.
Tomorrow, we’ve booked e-bikes to go to Cannes - there are no road bikes available just city clunkers. This will be an adventure for sure.Read more