Christmas spirit in Nice!

Christmas is approaching! Which unfortunately means some inevitable Christmas shopping. So we decided to head down to Nice, taking the velo bleu, naturally (since the weather was rather nice). We cycled down to the port of Nice, taking in the nice views along the Promenade des Anglais, as always (including a rather big hybrid snowman/Santa Claus). Once arrived at the port, we purchased some Anna’s pepparkakor (Swedish gingerbread cookies, yummie) at our favourite (and only?) Nordic food shop on the Cote d’Azur, Fjord.

From there we headed up to Place Garibaldi, where we checked out the rather pretty Christmas decoration. Then we joined the fray for a bit of shopping, not too bad actually, I expected worse, considering we are 10 days from Christmas. We didn’t have much time for shopping though, since we had a cinema to catch.

After the movie, we were meeting up with Mikko and Marianne for dinner, after a quick vin chaud at Place Massena. We’d picked a rather well reputed place called Les Deux Canailles for the occasion. The chef, Tsumoru Takano, used to work his magic at the Michelin-starred Keiusuke Matsushima. And we ate very well indeed at Les Deux Canailles as well, I suspect it won’t be too long until they get their first star either… The nice thing is that you get the excellent food and service without the “stiffness” (for lack of a better word) that you sometimes get at Michelin-starred establishments.

All in all, a great soiree, good to catch up with Mikko and Marianne as well!