Boat Trip and the Negresco - Cote d'Azur
Boat Trip and the Negresco
Friday 3rd July 2009
Went on a short boat trip along the Mediterranean coast from Juans-les-Pins in the afternoon, had dinner at the Zucca Magica in Nice's port, and stayed our last night at the famous Negresco hotel.
Cote d'Azur
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| 13:24:08 Le Point Gourmand - the little cafe where we had lunch in Juan-les-Pins - the staff in here where extremely nice. | 13:49:51 Chie in front of the boat. | 14:04:40 Setting off now... |
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| 14:06:47 Another picture of Chie on the boat... | 14:07:44 ....and another. | 14:09:13 On the way we passed some rather lavish looking yachts. |
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| 14:09:50 This yacht is called Ice, and apparently belongs to Russian Billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, who also has a villa nearby. | 14:18:31 The other side of the boat. | 14:20:17 A slightly more modest yacht off in the distance. |
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| 14:23:22 In the "Bay of Millionaires" now. | 14:24:08 | 14:24:15 Very exotic looking here! |
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| 14:25:36 | 14:34:46 The boat had an observation deck underneath letting you see underwater. Alas the sea wasn't particularly clear so we couldn't see much, but it was still quite fun. | 14:36:06 Odd colours in here! |
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| 14:37:05 More underwater photography... | 14:38:18 Hmmm... really hard to get any meaningful pictures here! | 14:42:36 Back up on deck. |
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| 14:54:01 ....and underneath again... | 14:54:25 Quite nice to watch the movement of the water from underneath as the boat started to move away. | 15:00:18 Chie in the observation deck. |
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| 15:03:16 A few more pictures of various boats milling about on the way back to the harbour... | 15:03:23 | 15:04:37 |
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| 15:04:48 | 15:07:06 | 16:39:59 Back in Nice now, and here's the Negresco, where we'd be staying for our last night. |
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| 16:48:39 Our room at the Negresco. | 16:49:08 Not sure why I felt it necessary to take a picture of the bathroom as well, but there you go. | 17:08:04 After dropping off our things in our room, we decided to go on a tour of the hotel - there's art on every floor, and each floor is slightly differently themed. This is on the 2nd floor, where our room was, which had a sort of modern art theme. |
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| 17:09:08 The third floor, a little more classical (with the exception of the carpets!). | 17:15:01 I think this must be the 4th floor...? Bit of an Oriental feel here then. | 17:15:09 Definitely prefer this to the more contemporary bits. |
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| 17:16:04 The 5th floor... not sure what theme this is - is that Napoleon per chance? Again, not entirely sure about the carpets... | 17:18:45 There was a whole corridor full of Dali paintings on the 5th (I think) floor. | 17:22:14 I really liked this series of 1920s/30s style caricatures, mostly outside famous hotels. This one here is the Casino at Monte Carlo, which seemed very appropriate. |
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| 17:23:03 ...and here's the Ritz in London. | 17:31:09 Rather liked this little sofa here. | 17:36:50 I think that's the first floor landing. |
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| 17:40:38 ...and this is in the Salon Royale. | 17:40:52 ....which has a rather nice chandelier. | 18:23:20 Chie rather liked the lifts at our Negresco. |
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| 18:24:52 Back in our room, we realised we had a picture of Ginkakuji in Kyoto on our wall - very apt! | 18:37:24 Chie looking at the map. | 19:41:54 For dinner we decided to head over to the port to visit Nice's one and only vegetarian (ish) restaurant... |
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| 19:41:59 Here are some boats etc on our pre dinner stroll. | 19:42:37 There's the restaurant - La Zucca Magica. | 19:45:35 Chie on the quayside of the port. |
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| 19:46:03 More flashy yachts abound. | 20:00:02 It seems I only took one picture of the food at La Zucca Magica - this was a chilled tuscan bean soup we had for a starter. In total there were 5 courses, and there was no menu, food just showed up. | 20:12:56 The walls were covered in various pumpkin themed pictures. |
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| 22:15:27 Heading back to the hotel along the Promenade des Anglaises now, a few last night-time shots of the beach in Nice... | 22:15:38 | 22:31:17 ...and some shots of the Negresco by night - realy hard to get the lighting right. |
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| 22:31:25 | 22:32:56 Chie in front of the Negresco. | 22:33:15 |
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| 22:33:37 | 22:34:02 That's probably the best of the lot... |
