Easy hiking trails in the French Riviera
Monaco is the fastest growing country in the world. Over the past few decades, the size of its surface area has increased by approx. 23 per cent. In order to hit the same growth rate, Russia, a state similarly keen on territorial expansion, would have to annex not only the Ukraine plus the Baltic States…
The world is constantly changing, but some parts of it change more quickly than others. Landscapes, generally, change slowly and gradually if at all: on a return visit to the Alps, you will expect to see the same mountains as many years before and be rarely disappointed. Cities, by contrast, evolve much more quickly, and…
There are many things to do in Monaco besides gambling away your family fortune. You can, for example, hike to the top of the Tete de Chien, the “Dog’s Head” that keeps a watchful eye on the town from its lofty heights … … or visit one of the principality’s many gardens and sculpture parks….
This week, we feature a guest post from our friend and fellow Riviera-resident Vaud Massarsky who used to work as a serial entrepreneur in the USA (where he, among other businesses, published a weekly New York City real estate journal and produced live drama as well as musicals) and now spends much of his time…
Coastal resort towns all over the world are the same – or so I thought before I took a closer look. Since then, I believe that this is a sweeping generalization which, like all sweeping generalizations, contains a grain of truth and a lot of ignorance. In fact, resort towns can be 10 kilometres away…
Seen from the train to Marseille, the Le Ciotat shipyards are the town’s most conspicuous feature. If you stand in the city centre, however, facing these very shipyards from the marina, Le Ciotat’s “Triplet Peaks” easily rival the old docks in size and prominence. In local parlance, these peaks are known as the rochers de…
Never judge a travel destination by what you can see from afar. Chances are you will be lured into a trap by sights that promise more than they can deliver – or, much worse than that, deterred from taking a closer look by one particularly disfiguring element of the townscape. You will never know what…
Only a couple of weeks to go until the Olympics! And to get in the right mood for this biggest sporting event of the year, we have created our own Olympic challenge: the Easy Hiker Pentathlon of (1) visiting what was 100 years ago the biggest tourist attraction in the area around Nice, … ……
Today’s post is all about the best walk to have a perfect day in Nice, so good that it is well worth dedicating an entire day to it. You start in the morning walking into the town centre via the Promenade des Anglais (all the way from the Parc Phoenix tram stop, if you can…
Nice and Paris – the two most visited cities in France – make up an odd couple. In almost every way you look at them, they are the antithesis of each other. Above all, the two are distinguished by the weather, of course: unpredictable and often grim in the capital, sweet and gentle on the…