Tintin & Carnival Parades

 Today is carnival parade day! We actually have 2 parades today, will see how that goes.

Start the day by walking through some streets we haven't been on yet back to the Tintin exhibit which is at the cultural center at Nice Port Lympia. Yes we get in today, and it is a free exhibit, always a bonus. The exhibit is in the old prison, it starts of in the chapel area. Joey and I were not brought up with Tintin, Andre loved Tintin as a child, but I it was still an interesting exhibit. Interesting to see how the books were made, and how much the author Herge loved art and tried to incorporate it in his books.

Walked back along the waterfront and through old town to pick up gnocchi for supper tonight from the amazing pasta place we had ravioli from the other day, and we each get a piece of pissaladiere for lunch (it is a carmelized onion and anchovy tart, very yummy)

First parade done, the afternoon parade is a flower parade. It was fun, we had good seats, but very high up in a great section. Great MC that got the crowd involved. The parade took about 1.5 hours, beautiful floats with lots of flowers on them for decorations. After they finish going around the parade route once for everyone to see they return back to the beginning of the route where we were sitting and start passing out flowers from the floats. Hard to believe this is done 5 or 6 times over 2 weeks, so many flowers! We were given mimosas when we first arrived so have those in our apartment now, but missed out on adding other flowers from the tossing.

Supper back at the apartment, gnocchi from the pasta shop with mushroom and Parmesan sauce from the same shop, delicious, like little pillows. I am sure we will be back to this shop once more to try another pasta. An amazing price of 13.67 Euro and there is leftovers for at least one person for tomorrow. No more ordering pasta in a restaurant, we will get it from here. We saw large orders being picked up while we were there, I'm sure they wholesale a lot to restaurants.

After supper a short break and we are back for the evening parade. Lots of spectators without seats, you can buy tickets for standing only, and if you are dressed up the standing tickets are free. The MC was the same as this afternoon, and pretty much the same script, so that wasn't quite as fun, but it was fun to see everything in the dark. The floats were all different than this afternoon, and no flower decorations. It was fun to see both versions.

Again even quiet days here turn into lots of steps, 19,800 today or 12.4 KM

A cute little hotel on our walk to the port

Everything finishes in erie

Where we stopped for our daily morning pastries

At the Tintin exhibit

Many panel about the author

I need to go back to Brussels

Herge did painting for 1 year but stopped because he did not think he was good enough

They used sketches to write his name

View of Port Lympia and Castle hill from the second floor at the museum

Me getting ready to go to the moon

They has a few panel of the port over the years

Back inside

Walking home along the port and the water

A couple of fisherman selling fish and their gear

A small cruise ship in port

Lots of cactus growing on the side of the hill

You can see the snow cap Alps mountains

I waited at the wine shop while the girls got fresh gnocchi

Guess from what TV show that I may have watch at one time

We got pissaliere for lunch, the bread was undercook but it tasted good with the caramelized onion and anchovies

At the Afternoon Carnival Flower Parade

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The night parade

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