Totally Riviera - The Cote d’Azur’s premier British run property finding company - launched it’s new revolutionary video service this week. Clients of the company will now be able to view an apartment or villa, in detail from the comfort of their own home or office.
Totally Riviera’s Head of Sales for Nice, Kari Clouston […]
Review by Nicole Wright, Monaco private banker by day - restaurant sleuth by night. Blink and you will miss it. Tucked away between a florists and piano shop, La Sapore, just behind Place Garibaldi, is easy to overlook. For six months I did just that until one day curiosity got the better of me and […]
Review by DENNIS BROADFIELD.
It’s a truism that frequent travellers of a hedonistic disposition know only to well. After the irksome, time consuming and agressive free-for-all that is part of the post 9/11 airport check-in and travel experience, there is a desire to spoil yourself upon your arrival in direct proportion to the horrors of the […]
Le Tire Bouchon - review by Kari Clouston
Located on rue de la Prefecture, the Old Town’s designated posh road, you can discover one of the areas most recommended restaurant - Le Tire Bouchon. Perfectly positioned with the glamorous Palais du Justice, 30 seconds to the left and Caprioglio’s family run ‘cave a vin’ 20 seconds […]
Colmiane Forest Adventure - review by Kari Clouston
If during the busy hot summers or cool spring, you’ve had enough of the wall-to-wall people on the beaches and you’ve little money left after all the excessive shopping then I recommend you keep €16.30 aside for some forest adventures north of Nice! For this economical total you […]
Safari Restaurant -
It’s very fashionable for the French in Nice to dismiss any restaurant on the Cours Saleya, because, they say with a slightly superior expression, that this famous stretch of restaurants and markets in the Old Town is only for tourists. Like all sweeping generalisations there is a kernel of truth to what they […]
Papayou Restaurant – review by Dennis Broadfield.One of my favourite restaurants in the Old Town, Papayou, is just around the corner from our office and is owned and run by two of the nicest restaurateurs in Nice. Thierry Broguet and Mariana Bagni travel widely when they shut their restaurant over winter, and have fallen in […]
Indyana restaurant – Review by Dennis Broadfield
Indyana is a quality restaurant off the tourist trail, populated, especially at lunch, by local lawyers, stylish businessmen and women, and chic fashonista’s trying to make an impression. In many other restaurants this melange would spell style-over-substance, with a predictably self-conscience menu, but not here. I have regularly visited […]
Why a blog? Well we were wondering what to do with all the information we get about life on the Riviera. Over the years we’ve built up some fat files of top tips and handy hints (that’s enough alliteration - Ed).
There are some great sides to life here - and one or two pitfalls. And […]
Bad Behavior has blocked 40 access attempts in the last 7 days.