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Nice in Nice
Sep. 24th, 2009 08:31 pmI am in Nice, and it's very nice, apart from the fact that the chambermaid has too many rooms to clean in a single day and that the Internet is performing with its predictable inconsistency. Of which, more later.
Journey to Gatwick was fine, flight was fine, bus to Nice was fine, walk to hotel was fine. I'm getting the hang of this.
Went straight out to eat.
Had epaule d'agneau confite with carrots, celery and potatoes, followed by tourte de blettes, a sweet swiss chard in a short pastry. Definitely not bought in. Rare to find genuine "local" restaurants in Nice. The "Lulu" (26 rue Alberti) is not haute cuisine, but it is "genuine", with the owner doing the cooking and only three staff. Guy running it is named Lucien Brych.
Canteen Lulu
Getting online in a European hotel is easier said than done. You have to go down to the lobby to obtain a code for 24 hours' use (in Vegas you log in at the computer and get charged automatically). Presumably you get charged the 15 euros whether you use it or not. Instead of using it straight away, I decided to try to use my Palm. I got there in the end! That too was an experience. The Palm OS is basically built for people who enjoy working with Linux with their eyes closed. I couldn't for the life of me work out how to change the phone number that it dials to get to my server. Then I realized that I had to change the "conection" to Palm Modem (even though it is a GPRS connection). That gave me a dial-up number that I could change. Then I changed the connection back to GPRS. Voila!
( more travels, pictures )
Journey to Gatwick was fine, flight was fine, bus to Nice was fine, walk to hotel was fine. I'm getting the hang of this.
Went straight out to eat.
Had epaule d'agneau confite with carrots, celery and potatoes, followed by tourte de blettes, a sweet swiss chard in a short pastry. Definitely not bought in. Rare to find genuine "local" restaurants in Nice. The "Lulu" (26 rue Alberti) is not haute cuisine, but it is "genuine", with the owner doing the cooking and only three staff. Guy running it is named Lucien Brych.
Canteen Lulu
Getting online in a European hotel is easier said than done. You have to go down to the lobby to obtain a code for 24 hours' use (in Vegas you log in at the computer and get charged automatically). Presumably you get charged the 15 euros whether you use it or not. Instead of using it straight away, I decided to try to use my Palm. I got there in the end! That too was an experience. The Palm OS is basically built for people who enjoy working with Linux with their eyes closed. I couldn't for the life of me work out how to change the phone number that it dials to get to my server. Then I realized that I had to change the "conection" to Palm Modem (even though it is a GPRS connection). That gave me a dial-up number that I could change. Then I changed the connection back to GPRS. Voila!
( more travels, pictures )
