By Stephanie Sommers Back safely in Nice, I again turned my attention to the Carnival, which came to an end on Sunday night. The burning of the king in the sea marks the end of [...]

By Stephanie Sommers Another night in Menton; another great meal. Thursday my friends and I went to Menton’s night parade and fireworks display, the last one during the Lemon Festival. We ate beforehand and I [...]

By Stephanie Sommers Concurrent with Nice’s great Carnival that I’ve been blogging about, Menton, the pretty French town sitting between the Italian border and Monaco, has been holding its annual Lemon Festival. If, like me, [...]

While Nice is holding its Carnival the pretty Riviera town of Menton, on the other side of Monaco, is holding its Lemon Festival. I went to the Citron festivities on Friday night but I’ll write about that later this week because I want now to tell about a rather gorgeous Sunday I passed in Nice’s Carnival epicenter.

The Corso Illuminé is the night parade that circles two times around Place Massena on Tuesday and Saturday nights. I’ve been to two corsos, or corsi, now and they are rather spectacular.

By Stephanie Sommers Honestly, someone should have warned me that the Bataille des Fleurs, the Battle of the Flowers, was not a contest between the flower floats in a parade but rather an actual ‘battle’ [...]

By Stephanie Sommers The King arrived at 9 pm on Friday. By then it had become apparent when I asked various Niçois what happens on the King arrival that a lot of locals have never [...]

By Stephanie Sommer Before I moved to Nice to study French and look for work, I had been warned by friends in nearby Provence that this was a city of little old ladies and small [...]