• the flag of France, the Tricolor
  • French license plate
  • we arrived in Nice, France, midmorning after an overnight flight, took a nap and spent the after
  • our hotel faced the Mediterrean, but our room faced a suburban street
  • the street mostly catered to the apartment dwellers who live above the shops
  • our fist introduction to he bicycle rental pools we will see all over France
  • our hotel, the Radisson, Nice
  • beach front apartments
  • neighborhood market
  • neighborhood flower shop
  • "don't leave your pets in a hot car"
  • beach front hotels
  • condom vending machines are common
  • originally a beach front mansion -- original owner could have been from anywhere in Europe
  •  Promenade des Anglais
  • the Mediterrean laps at the rocky Nice beach
  • the Nice airport is close to town and build into the ocean
  • hotels ad condos line the Promenade des Anglais
  • the famous beach is rock, not sand
  • across the bay toward the entrance to the yatch harbor
  • the line of famous hotels "downtown" Nice
  • the beach is dotted with concessions for more privacy and amenities
  • it's a cool and mostly cloudy afternoon, more walkers than bathers
  • our neighborhood from the hotel roof where there was a pool and bar
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