Night out in Nice

Our good friend Olivier, who hails from the beautiful village of Greolieres - a please we've visited several times with great pleasure - was on the Cote d'Azur. After some juggling with schedules, we finally managed to fix a rendez-vous for Saturday. Unfortunately, we couldn't meet in Greolieres, since the Paris-Nice cycle race was on, and today's section was around Greolieres.

So we decided to meet up in Nice too - which required rather careful coordination since we had a theatre to attend that night. So we decided to meet up for a drink and quick dinner before the theatre. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depends on whether one enjoys theatre or not), our ambitious plan fell to pieces rather quickly, since both us and Olivier were late for the rendez-vous. So, to cut a long story short, we decided to join Mathilde's CIV colleages, have a proper dinner and more than one drink, and skip the theatre instead (an excellent decision, if you ask me - I guess we'll just have to see Death of a Salesman another time).

So, after a few drinks at Checkpoint (one of the numerous British pubs in the old town of Nice, one I haven't been to for quite a few years actually), and another quick apero at Le Bar de Degustation (a Nice classic), we ended up having dinner at Attimi. Quite appropriately festive since after all, there were three occasions to celebrate (my birthday, Ollie's birthday, and as we were happy to find out, the upcoming birth of Ollie's and Raphaelle's second child!).

All in all, a great night out, and great to see everybody again!