Shana's Italian Adventures: Spring Break - Nice! And also Antibes, Cannes, and Eze Village

I spent Spring Break with my friend Daneka in Nice, France. We stayed at a hostel called the Villa Saint-Exupery (which turned out to employ a large amount of Australians) and traveled by train to nearby cities during the week including Antibes, Cannes, and Eze Village.

Our first room (we were moved into a smaller room later in the week) had 9 beds just for the two of us and was called the Oscar-Claude Monet room :)

Nighttime walk around Nice - We arrived in Nice at the very end of their Carnival celebrations

Found a delicious crepe restaurant to have some dessert (we went back another day for some savory crepes!):

Yummy hot cider!

Amazing crepes!—butter and cinnamon sugar

Flower Market

Market Musicians

Entertaining the little girl on the right

The Nice Beach

Daneka and I spending a beautiful morning at the beach

New friend Aviva on the left—found a fellow Northwester! Lives in Portland and works at Andina! Small world! We began talking because she is wearing the same dress that I own :)

Beginnings of the Carnival Parade—Floats covered in flowers

View of Nice from above

Metro Stop in Nice—great way to get around

Marc Chagall Museum

Stained Glass

Mosaic

Picnic lunch on the beach with food from the Market

Roman Ruins (don't worry, I got some archaeology in!)

Sunset

Views of our Monet room, completely decorated with copies of his paintings

Antique Market

Market Musicians

Antibes:

Daneka and I met two guys at our hostel (one from Germany and the other from Australia) who took a day trip with us to Antibes and Cannes

We climbed the walls of this medieval fortress

sculpture on top of the fortress

Snow on the nearby mountains

Daneka and I with the modern sculpture

Pablo Picasso Museum, Antibes

Picasso Sculpture garden

Only one good picture from Cannes...it was pretty cold at this point! But we found a restaurant and enjoyed a bottle of wine with our friends as we looked out on the Cannes beach.