Eze and VilleFranche-Sur-Mer

Up this morning and it is beautiful out so decide to do Eze, a mountain top town we had heard great things about. Took the bus, which was very busy, I can't imagine how it must be in the summer time!

Eze is a very small town that has lots and lots of tourists visiting. There is the old town at the top of a mountain, and Eze on the water as well. We went to the mountain top, explored the old town and the tiny streets, once we were done with that decided to hike down to Eze on the waterfront. This is about a 2 KM hike down on a pretty steep pathway in sections, lots of steps. We have heard people get a bus to the waterfront town instead of the mountain top and hike up, I can't imagine doing that, but we did see quite a few people hiking up. Once we reached the sea we caught a bus to VilleFranche-Sur-Mer, where Andre and I had spend a day last week for the boats parade with flowers. It was nice to see VilleFranche-Sur-Mer without the thousands of people around for the parade. Had a nice lunch, except for the mistake Joey and Wendy made ordering small fish and chips, well it wasn't a small fish and chips it was literally small fish. Heads and everything. They were good but they definitely could have shared one portion. Andre had Moules & Frites.

Once again we are in a bit of a mess for getting the bus back to Nice. It was parade day in Menton which we didn't even think of so everyone was on the busses before us from Menton returning back to Nice. Busses went by full, so finally decided Uber was our solution to get home, 20 euros instead of 5. It was a lot more comfortable than being packed as sardines on the bus.

Wendy and Joey went for happy hour in town, managed to only get slightly turned around, Andre stayed home to nurse his cold. Quite night tonight.

Wendy thinks step count should be much higher, her knees are very sore after all that down climb today. 22,400 Steps, or 14.25 KM

On the walk to catch the bus

Square Head aka Tête carrée

First view of Eze, Still need to go up

A small market at the base. Locals must have to come down

Fancy hotel but closed during the winter

Entering the village

So many small alleys going up and down

Only 1 church visit today and it was under reno

The start of our 2 km hike down (1000 feet elevation change from here)

Eze-sur-mer

Love this little island with it's little bridge

Villa Marguerite from the gate, can't imaging the rest

VilleFranche-sur-mer without all the tourist from the last time

Wendy found her boat "Spritz"

Speaking of spritz

Lunch

At the citadel. More ups and down. A large place with beautiful gardens and art

Might have to come back and see Brigitte

Happy hour. Joey found a new drink

From Feb 11 to the end of February, we have done 250KMS. An average of 13 kms per day