Busy day in Nice and Cannes

The sales are on (it's a kind of regulated thing in France - you can't just have sales all year around here)! So time to head into Nice then for a spot of shopping, then. We also decided to meet up with Aki and Henna, since we've not seen them for a while. We decided to take the velo bleu into Nice - we were treated to rather intersting sights along our cycle ride (the Mediterranean was rather temperamental this particular afternoon - and one of the waves actually ended up flooding a beach restaurant, much to the discomfort of the patrons.

After a bit of shopping, we met up with Aki & Henna at Galerie LaFayette's coffee shop. Great to see them again, and great to see little Emil growing up (happy as always!). Mathilde also got to meet the youngest member of the family. Joel. We really should try to meet up more often - perhaps for a combined birthday part for me and Henna again in March ? ;-)

For the evening, the plan was to meet up in Cannes for dinner with the "usual CIV crowd" (Aurelien, Julie, Rodolph and Daniela). So we jumped on the train, and headed Westward along the coast. Aurelien had booked a place called Couby's Cafe for the occasion. Kind of hard to find, this Couby's Cafe, we ended up walking around for nearly half an hour trying to find the place, located rather far away from the town centre. But we eventually found it, and were actually the first to arrive. And how was it then ? Pretty cool place, actually. Some of the best burgers I've had on the Cote d'Azur, and I really loved their cartoon themed, laid back decoration too. There aren't enough of these informal joints on the French Riviera!

So a pretty nice way to spend a-not-so-sunny Saturday, then!