Back in Nice, with Celine and Angelina.....(July 5, 2008)

Celine Dion is doing a major tour of France and tonight she is in Nice. No rooms left in the inns. Thank goodness Philippe (Star Hotel) clued us in to this, so we could find a room. We are right across from the train station, so it will be very convenient for me tomorrow morning after I accompany Mark to the airport.

We walked all over Vieux Nice (old Nice) this morning....the market, a couple of churches, toured a Baroque palace (for free!). Mark reads the Rick Steves books much more thoroughly than I, so he finds more places to visit.

After a picnic lunch and rest in our room (with iced drinks from KFC!), we walked up to the Russian Orthodox church. Spent quite a while there, cooling down, and then walked over to the Chagall Museum. These walks in this heat are hard.....but we eventually cooled down. The Chagall Museum was very interesting. His art is very imaginative and colorful, even if it is a bit bizarre!

Try to figure out what this is a picture of! (Answer at the end of this blog.)

After cooling off again in our room, we went to dinner at a place recommended by Philippe and Alfredo (Star Hotel)....called L'Ovale. It was really good and reasonably priced. We ate too much, though, so the walk back was needed! We saw Alfredo there and were able to tell him good-bye. What can I say about Alfredo, except that he reminds me very much of Franck in The Father of the Bride! Nuff said.

Tomorrow we part ways. It will be weird being alone again. I will be meeting up with the other scholarship recipients in Grenoble, and am looking forward to getting into a room where I can unpack and stay for three weeks!

(The Chagall is a billy goat and a rooster!)