Travel

Yesterday I travelled back to Nice on EasyJet with my godson and his mother. As young children often are, my 8 year old godson Jamie can be very entertaining without intending. So as he mounted the stairway to the plane he remarked “I am feeling excited but a little nervous too. When I go to [...]

Le bilan is an accountancy word which literally might be translated as the balance sheet but is often used to convey the summing up. As I was on the midday EasyJet flight out of Nice yesterday surveying the Baie des Anges from up above I thought further of Daffers’ observation and did my [...]

Despite the title of this post I am enjoying this stay, as much as any of the Rusters appreciate Nice, but do feel some more negative points can be fairly made. It’s already been pointed out that there are plaques throughout the city commemorating the Free French resistance and a war memorial [...]

I have visited Nice many times and regard it as an underrated city. For many it is the gateway to the Riviera: to Antibes, Cannes and St Tropez to the east to Beaulieu, Cap Ferrat and Monte Carlo to the west. It would never for example be compared to Barcelona as a port city. Yet it has much to [...]

Michel de Vacri It takes more than Brexit, the July 14 terrorist attack and the slump in the pound to prevent the spring trip of National Rust to my city. I was delighted that not only Alice, Daphne, Nancy and Robert with his two p/as Grania and Polly were coming here but also Lavinia and Simon to [...]