This restaurant was our favorite during our three week France and Italy trip. The food was so fresh and the olive oils were really incredible. They don't accept credit cards, so bring cash. If I remember correctly, our bill was around 140 euro for four people including wine.
I spent a couple of weeks in Nice 2 years ago before I started my job after B-school. I'll think about some ideas and send me an email. Follow up if I forget. Life is crazy right now with work
Post by majesty318 on Sept 11, 2015 9:21:51 GMT -5
I stayed at this hotel in Nice a couple years ago. It was charming and well-located. Pricey, though, particularly the restaurant onsite. It had a gorgeous pool and gorgeous bathroom in the room.
We did enjoy visiting Juan les Pins, Antibes, Villefranche, & Monaco from Nice. I know we took to the bus to some of them and the train to others. I want to say it was bus to Villefranche and train to the others, but I can't remember. Both bus & train were easy to navigate. We mostly just walked around, window shopped, and sat in cafes in each place. We also took little tram tours often (they had them in most cities).
I LOVE Marseille. I think you're fine with just spending a few days there (I went for a long weekend, maybe 4 days?), but if you are there long enough, you can do a super easy day trip to Aix-en-Provence, which is lovely.
Be sure to eat bouillabaise while you're in Marseille and find a place to get authentic North African food. Neither of those should be hard to find, but I went to Chez Madie les Gallinettes for bouillabaise and had to make the reservation 48 hours in advance.
A cruise out to see the Calanques is another nice Marseille activity.
Here is a super-old blog post of mine about Marseille. I think I went by some of the 36 hours NYT reco's, so do a search and see if they've covered Marseille more recently.
Just realized my link above is for all of May 2012. This one is for Marseille, specifically. Make sure you eat some orange-blossom-water cookies (navettes), if I don't specifically mention that in the post. They are hard to find elsewhere and are a real bitch to make at home.
Swing by Villafranche sur Mere, it's one of the most lovely and quaint little beach towns. Antibes has quite a bit too, but only during the peak season. It might be hit or miss by the end of September.
For your H, you can find the painted start line for the Monaco GP right in the harbor. I think it's a Monoprix supermarket (it's definitely a super market with a make your own fresh press orange juice machine out front) that it's in front of. It's super unassuming and the first time we went (not Monaco GP weekend) we walked by it twice looking for it.
There's also an F1 store in Monaco that has tons and tons of stuff, I couldn't find a website, but it's near the Automobile Club de Monaco at 15 rue Grimaldi. laboutique-automobileclubmonaco.com - tons of polos, clothes, etc... monalisamotorsport.com - there's that one too that sells F1 stuff, but the one next to Automobile Club de Monaco has actual F1 stuff
Also, have I given you J's blog? She does a much better job documenting than I do
And finally, if you're heading down the slippy slope of aquiring passport stamps, don't forget you can get a stamp in Monaco at the tourist office in the harbor. Haha.
Oh AND, Alain Duchasse is one of my all time favorites in London. You guys will have an awesome time!
I was in the area right after university so I was a broke college student, BUT I love love love the south of France! I did have some amazing pastries at this cute little place, I'm fling to hunt down my diary to see if I can find it!