Oysters and Picasso: A Day Trip to Antibes
Saturday February 25 was another cloudy day (too many of them) with a high of 15C. Our street-- our apartment building is the orange coloured one on the left side of the picture We walked through the Palais de Justice square, where a Saturday book market was taking place. Lots of folks perusing the book stalls We had about a 20 minute walk to the train station, where we were catching the 11:20 a.m. train to Antibes. We had been thinking about going to Cannes, but lots of people said we should instead go to Antibes for our last day trip. Antibes is about 15km southeast of Nice. It is a very picturesque old town with stone ramparts and medieval towers and it is the site of a Picasso Museum. Since it wasn't a beach day, and we didn't feel like just wandering around the luxury stores in Cannes, a trip to Antibes made a lot of sense. I hadn't been there since 1986. Nice Train Station It is only about a 30 minute train ride to Antibes. Along the way, ...