It’s a little cooler today in Nice, with rain forecast for tonight and tomorrow. The rest of France is officially getting the first taste of winter, with lots of snow and colder temperatures. Of course, that’s all the news is talking about, getting opinions from the man on the street about how they feel about the cold.
We took a little ride to see the gym we’re going to be using for the rest of our stay in Nice, and it happens to be right across from Zbyszek’s favorite place to visit – the hypermarché. We were able to go grocery shopping and pick up some things that the local Monoprix doesn’t have, including some pastries that I assume will be yummy. On the way home, we ran into the hordes of school kids getting out for Wednesday afternoon. Z was able to restrain himself from educating the youth of France and we made it home without trouble.
After lunch and a bit of rest at home, we took a walk up to the monastery de Cimiez where we visited the gardens and the cemetery. It’s a very peaceful place to relax and there is a park filled with people exercising and playing pétanque.
The cemetery was not all that big, but still large enough to take an hour or so. The graves are from the 1800’s up to the present. We found some Polish graves mixed in among the French and Italian ones. There were quite a few tombs of soldiers fallen in World War 1.
And there was a cat living in the cemetery. It kept following us around, but didn’t seem to want to be pet.
