Nice

How long would you spend in Nice, in March and what would you do there for that time?

Thanks!

I'd go for a week and eat biscuits.

Go there to smile at pretty girls, smoke cheap hash and stuff your face with amazing and cheap food. Lots of fish, lots of meat, lots of oil and all the anchovies you can manage.

I hate anchovies. Cheap food? I thought it was posh there?

How long before I get tired of smiling at pretty girls? Or how long before the gf will get tired of me smiling at pretty girls do you reckon? :)

I expect your gf will tire of it much faster than you. In general that part of the coast is expensive but if there are normal working French there then there will be a place for them to eat local food at good prices. Ask locals where to eat and they will jump over themselves to tell you their favourites.

Or just sit about eating cold cassoluet straight out of the tin with your fingers.

Find a climb in the hinterland of Nice, 'close it' with a car at the top and bottom, shout at any other road user who has the temerity to use it, and improve your hill climbing.

The food and beer is soooo expensive, but you'll eat some quality dishes if you aren't too picky about seafood and meat. The people can be friendly, if you make the initial effort to speak french.
The port gets pretty busy (its where i worked in between snowboard seasons), so its actually nice to get down to Antibes.
I dont know if you have to go there, but i would change your destination and head to Biarritz or St Jean de Luz on the atlantic, for a lovely basque influenced holiday.... Get up to Hossegor for some amazing surf and decent nights out.
But, Nice is Nice...

I'd spending six days getting fired up on cheap french lager and shagging fit french birds.

Find a climb in the hinterland of Nice, 'close it' with a car at the top and bottom, shout at any other road user who has the temerity to use it, and improve your hill climbing.

Pfft! As if it could be improved! How very dare you!

Since I'll be trying to ride the 1500k there in 6 days I think the last thing I'll want to be doing on arrival is touching a bike.

I dont know if you have to go there, but i would change your destination and head to Biarritz or St Jean de Luz on the atlantic, for a lovely basque influenced holiday.... Get up to Hossegor for some amazing surf and decent nights out.
But, Nice is Nice...

Yeah, doing a ride that ends there.

Not too keen on seafood but I can live on just beer so that should be ok.

Monaco? It's close enough that I'd probably head there just because I can. Maybe crash into some Lambos for MikeC while I'm there.

I'd spending six days getting fired up on cheap french lager and drooling near fit french birds.

I'll see what I can manage.

*Yeah, doing a ride that ends there. *

Not too keen on seafood but I can live on just beer so that should be ok.

Monaco? It's close enough that I'd probably head there just because I can. Maybe crash into some Lambos for MikeC while I'm there.

Just watch out for Tommy V. He will make you do all the work in the brake feinging tirednes before going it alone with a k or 2 to go.

There is a fucking SWEET gay nightclub there. Had an awesome time (nohomo).

I reckon the ride to Monaco would be something pretty special. The Casino there is bollocks though.

Also, met an amazing girl there while pissed up on beer as SuperPrecise says.... (noho)

Wine, saucisson, croissants, shrugging

Heh

Monaco?

If you can mate - yes. Great place to visit.

It's a good spin along the coast from Nice to Monaco and my bike didn't even get stolen when I locked it up to sit on the beach.

It's incredibly expensive, even for France. The food is great if you can afford it. There's a really big Carrefour on the Promenade des Anglais (runs by the beach) - I just bought food there and ate outside. There's also a Super-U on Raoul Dufy which is a bit cheaper.

The roads up into the hills are comically steep - the place I was staying in was at the top of Avenue Raoul Dufy which was hard to walk up and probably infeasibly steep to cycle. If you're staying up in the hills, the buses are infrequent and stop running in the early evening - taxis are easy to find, though.

The bars are great if you don't mind the prices and the young Frenchmen. I can't remember the names or places of any of them.

The best thing is the wonderfully over-the-top southern French accent. Oh-rohn-jhee-nahhh!

Sorry for thread hijacking here but there is a link to Nice - a mate and I are looking for somewhere good to base ourselves for a week of cycling, that would include some hills, some flat, some good views, and a couple of bars to visit in the evening / some reasonably priced food.

We were thinking of flying to Nice and then staying in San Remo. Any thoughts?

^Not bad for 2nd forum post, hijacking hippy's nice thread

Oh-rohn-jhee-nahhh!

lol

oh christ.

thanks for highlighting it.

i would have started a new one but i couldn't be arsed to either:

• inevitably repost something that was said on page 1 of 2000 on one of the interesting threads
  
• sit in the 'welcome' forum for a while for the sake of it
  
  

think of it this way, soon i will have posted enough on this epic hijack to start a new thread that will be vetoed by the great and mighty of LFGSS.

You're fine. Hippy would have just merged a new thread on Nice with this one anyway. :)

Welcome!

Now someone give this person some help.