Nice: Day 1

So moving on to Nice… I immediately fell in love with this city.

The red buildings of Old Nice, the Place Messena, the Mediterranean, the greenery, the rocky beach… seriously one of my favorite places I’ve ever been.

I immediately said to Nick the first day there, “I could seriously live here.”

And while Paris probably still tops off my number 1 favorite place, Nice is definitely up there high on that list.

We started our day actually in Milan with an early train to Nice. After about a 4.5 hour train ride with gorgeous scenery, we arrived in Nice and spent the rest of the day exploring.

I took a little break alone and did some shopping as I was so excited to see a Galleries Lafayette there

(a favorite of mine in Paris) and we ended our day and evening eating lobster in Old Nice, among the old orange and red buildings, watching the pedestrians saunter by.

Another favorite of mine from Nice was our hotel and the view from our room. We stayed at the Meridian and I would highly recommend it. The view from our room was seriously incredible and a view that was truly inspiring to look out over all of Old Nice and the Mediterranean Ocean.

Nice for me was the beauty of the Riviera, the ancient colorful feel of Italy, and everything I love about France rolled up into one city. Many of the buildings reminded me a lot of the architecture of the French Quarter in New Orleans as well, intricate rod iron balconies and soft shades of all
different colors. This place is gorgeous. We will definitely be returning and I’d love to explore that region of France more, heading into Provence and the other Rivera cities as well.

Nice was my favorite part of this trip (other than Paris of course) and a beautiful new edition to my favorite places in the world!