I had a lot of fun in Nice, especially since there are a bunch of things for kids that Arya and I did that we liked. For starters the beach. There was a big beach that we found a lot of sea glass on. We got to walk along it over and over again.
We also found the coolest playground on earth. And I’m not just talking about your everyday ladder and slide, people. I’m talking about the biggest structures you could possibly imagine.The biggest structure was a huge whale made out of wooden whale bones with ropes to climb on and a slide coming out as a tongue on the end. There are also big swings that look like bowls made of rope hanging from strings. One of the coolest playgrounds was a little hut in the air with ropes coming of of it with logs below them, you sat on the logs grabbed the ropes and pulled yourself across the log to the next one. We also met this nice boy at the park that pushed us on the swing. We found out that he was from California, then moved to Oregon, and now he’s lived in France for three years. I liked talking to another kid in english.
Near the park there was a small fair set up with a ropes course, a jumpy house, a fun house, and most importantly, super jumping. You get strapped into a harness connected to thick elastic bands and jump on a trampoline. It goes very high, and since we had done it before, we knew how to do flips. The guy kept us on there for a long time. We got really worn out. One time I even stopped jumping and got stuck mid air, so the man had to pull me down to start jumping again.
We also took a day trip to Monaco, one of the smallest countries in the world. We walked across the whole country in a couple hours, taking stops along the way. While we there we saw the Grand Casino, probably the biggest casino I’ve ever seen. Then again I haven’t seen that many casinos in my life. I haven’t even been to Las Vegas.
We walked uphill to the palace where we saw the changing of the guards.
After that we wandered around the streets surrounding the palace. For lunch we stopped at a crêperie, I had a ham and cheese crêpe. In the restaurant there was also a tiny dog that Arya was afraid of.
Down along the dock in Monte Carlo, there were a million yachts. A lot of the yachts were being cleaned up. My favorite yacht was called Zeus. It had big sliding glass doors in the front.
That same day we also visited Villefranche, more specifically Cap Ferret. We were there for one reason, to see Marie Rothschild’s estate that had nine gardens. To get there, it was a very long walk. First we walked along the beach for a long way, then we had to walk up a hill a long way. When we got there and bought our tickets, we got a children’s activity guide. It had things like decoding a pattern painted in the room, counting the number of telephones, and finding a special flower’s name. It was one of the most fun children’s activity guides that I’ve ever done and I’ve done a lot of activity guides because we’ve visited a lot of places!
The gardens were beautiful. The first one was the Spanish Garden. Our guide’s clue was, “All the fountains in this garden have something alike, what is it?” Well it turned out all the fountains were fish. Which is very strange because I’ve never seen a fish fountain… until now. My favorite garden was the exotic garden. It was filled with succulents and exotic flowers (thus the name). Arya’s favorite garden was the Japanese Garden, of course, because she loves pandas and there was a lot of bamboo. A whole bamboo forest. I saw a very strange plant while I was there. It was kind of like a vine, but not really. It went up up and up and I wondered why it didn’t fall down. I’d never seen anything like it.
We stopped at the tea parlor at the estate and ordered ice cream that turned out to be huge ice cream sundaes.
I’m glad we went to the Côte d’Azur. Now I can use the sea glass we found to make arts and crafts along with many other things I’m collecting like bottlecaps, wooden sticks, and wine corks.
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