Weekend in Nice

 

We’ve just come back from an enjoyable weekend in Nice. A nice weekend?

We used a book called Walk and Eat Nice by John and Pat Underwood, which is quite small and fits in the pocket. Only when I got there, did I realise that the book has been written by a coeliac. They recommended a restaurant called the Le Pot d-Etain, which was excellent. There was also quite a few tips on how to find gluten-free foods in the city and recommendations for hotels and restaurants all round the city and in the environs.

We flew EasyGo from Stansted and stayed at the Hotel Windsor which was excellent and reasonable as we had a very large room for about £100 a night. You’d have paid at least £250 for a similar standard in London. We booked on-line and the hotel system was excellent.

It was also close to the train station, so we did a couple of trips to Beaulieu-sur-Mer and Antibes for just a few Euros. If you do that make sure you know how to use the automatic ticket machines for the TER, as the queues for the guichet were horrendous. For those who complain about our trains, the local trains from Nice were large brand-new double deck monsters. Or rickety trains of a certain vintage. But we did get to travel back from Antibes to Nice on a double-deck TGV, with four engines and sixteen coaches. You can walk from one end to the other on the top deck.

It’s a pity that our loading gauge is so small, that we can’t get the extra capacity we need by going double deck.

I’ve since checked with Sunflower Books and they do other guides in the same series. Check their web site for details.