Nice Beach

Not so Nice Weather in Nice

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June 16th 2007
Nice has the highest average number of sunlight hours in the whole of France. We arrived in to this French Riviera city to nice weather - the air was warm and the water was a beautiful shade of blue. How this changed on our free day! We copped a miserable day of clouds and rain, and to top it off it was Sunday so the vast majority of shops were closed. The French continued to show off their culina ... read more

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