Walking and dining in Juan-les-Pins & Antibes

This sunny Saturday, the plan was to meet up in Antibes for a bit of a post-birthday celebration (well, actually, more like just an excuse to go out for a good meal) with Marie, Chris and Aurore.

As the weather was rather fantastic (spring is approaching rapidly!), we decided to do a bit of exercise before the meal. So rather than taking the train to Antibes, we decided to get off at Juan-les-Pins, and walk across to Antibes from there, through Cap d'Antibes.

We started off by walking along the glitzy seaside of Juan-les-Pins (it's one of the posher resorts in one of the poshest parts of the world, so there you go, Juan-les-Pins is posh). And on we carried to even posher Cap d'Antibes. This is where the rich and the famous buy there villas (if the rich and the famous buy apartment, they buy them in Monaco) - where they typically spend about 2 weeks per year, I suppose... Anyway, apart from the fancy villas, Cap d'Antibes is blessed with a gorgeous coastal footpath - sadly we didn't have time to walk it this time around.

The arrival into Antibes was timed to perfection, as the sun was just setting when the ramparts and the old town came into view. So the walk from Cap d'Antibes to the old time was pretty amazing, with the old town nicely silhouetted against the reddish sky, with the still-blue Mediterranean separating us from the spectacle.

Upon arrival in Antibes, we had a bit of time to kill, so we decided on a spot of shopping, and an aperitif in the old town.

The venue for tonight's meal was La Cafetière Fêlée, a place reputed for its Japanese-Thai-French fusion cuisine. We started off with a fantastic starter platter, which was covered mostly with various forms of sushi and sashimi, which was just fine with me. I'm a big fan of sushi!

For the main courses, I had a really hard time making my choice, as there were several extremely delicious-seeming options, I ended up going for the Lamb Shank confit (with curry, coconut milk, coriander, and other exotic stuff). It was all predictably delicious. And to finish it off, a mille-feuille.

So as you may have guessed, we had a rather marvellous time. The food was fantastic, but it was great catching up with Marie, Chris and Aurore as well. We don't meet up often enough! (to remedy that, we planned a new Culinary experience involving a monster hamburger - sounds rather promising!).