Sunday Morning 5

A party for Olivier whose birthday it is...joyeux anniversaire, Olivier, de la part de la ville de Nice et sa photo quotidienne...



I took this over a week ago when temperatures were up in the 20s. Yesterday it was cold as we experienced the same cold front that's affecting the rest of Europe.
I'm still very ambivalent about monochrome but I rather liked it here as it emphasised the geometry of the bench. I'm pretty sure that it was the same bench that Lady with the Great Hair was sitting on.

Sunday Morning 3: The Solex

So there were these two guys walking towards me, one on a moped, the other dressed very formally and they'd been talking quite intensely. I figured their faces would make an interesting photo so I took it whereupon my husband asked if I'd got the moped in the shot.

Well, no, actually I liked their faces.
But it was a Solex...
And that's interesting because...?
Because a Solex is to mopeds what a Vespa is to scooters. Iconic.
Who knew?

Sunday Mornings: Testing the Water

I've lived here for 23 years but watching someone voluntarily go for a swim in mid November, and she did swim, still amazes me and makes me shiver. Which is a joke really as both sea and air temperatures were probably warmer than the UK on a nice Summer day!

Sunday Mornings 1

So what does Sunday morning mean to you? Me, I slop around in night clothes, email the family, read a newspaper, have a leisurely breakfast and eventually work up enough energy to walk the dogs. This morning, however, I actually got up, dressed and headed into town to see how the average Nicois spends his down time and was stunned to discover half the city out and about and engaged in all sorts of physical activities: jogging, walking, cycling and sailing. It was so inspirational I just had to find a bench to sit on while I recorded it all...Anyway I'll show what I saw over the next few days.
This photo came with a bonus: you can just catch sight of the airport runway sticking out into the sea behind the yacht. It's almost touching down in the water that makes landing in Nice such a special start to a visit here.