I checked something off my bucket list for sure, and that was skiing in the Alps in the area closest to Nice, which is 53 miles away! I chose Auron resort, situated in the village of Auron, perched above the town of St-Étienne-de-Tinée. There is also Isola 2000 and Valberg which are equidistant from Nice, […]
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Renovation- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Part 2
If you are just reading the blog of the first time, you may want to read the prior blog post “Part 1” to get caught up. Where did we leave off? Oh yes, the renovation was about to take a turn for the worse. Unbeknownst to any of us, there was some water damage to […]
Oh My! Monte Carlo!
If you had to pick one iconic, storied town of the French Riviera, it would be Monte Carlo. From the likes of James Bond or Grace Kelly to the historic Formula-1 Grand Prix, there are many images one can conjure up of this playground to the rich and famous. I knew this had to be […]
Why Nice? Buying a home, sight unseen?
Why buy a home in France? Why Nice specifically? Would you believe we put an offer on a home, which was accepted, and we had never set foot in the city of Nice??? I often think back to this time and wonder if we were absolutely nuts! What I think drove our decision was a […]