I had read about one of those tours that you ride around on a train and there are headphones and you pick the language to listen to it in. One guidebook said to skip it and one person said if you are there for a short time or not sure what the town has to offer, it is a great introduction so that you can decide what to cover when you are there. I walked up the train as it was about to leave and enjoyed my tour.
I took 176 pictures in my one day in Nice. I guess I was trying to capture everything it had to offer and crammed it all in. I took pictures of the beautiful buildings,
the spotless beaches
and the old parts of the town.
Back on track…the tour went around town, to many of the spots that I had already been to before but it gave me some background which was nice. We also went to the top of some hill to see the castle
Not that castle.
They are excavating parts of it.
Other parts just offer a spectacular view of the city. I learned that 7 statues in the center of the town were to represent the 7 continents and that every day at noon a cannon is fired. Apparently some lady was always late for lunch and so her husband got permission from the mayor to shoot off a cannon every day at exactly noon to let her know to head back home so that she would not be late to lunch. For whatever crazy reason, the city has kept this custom going. I was in Nice at noon but a) did not hear it or b) did not know what it was. The tour was over, my towel was dry, and I headed back to the hostel.
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