A month. A Week. A Day.
France is sometimes lost in Translation. Sometimes lost with the network.
France – Cannes, The Big question was also.
Canne We Do It? That became Cannes We Do It.
The week, that had all the moments of drama and the beginning of the French Summer.
Went off in a slow Flow. With many “Visa rejections” and new challenges unfolding.
France was an experience again. After 7 Yrs not much had changed, Yet only it was Cannes instead of Monaco this time.
This was the Grand Prix, Lion and the film fest all rolling into the Carpet of Cannes.
Nice – If you have read that has Nice it was indeed nice to meet the city. That connects so many other cities within less than an hour.
A city with a beach, a view and a drone show with 2000 thousand drones too was witnessed here, thanks to a local Indian who we met that day.
The Indian food by Noori’s Anaz was the highlight of our Nice trip!
Meeting our group every day for Dinner at Noori for the 4 days we were there felt like a home away from home, With so many more connections we came across.
Monte Carlo after 7 years – The memories of the streets, where we walked around and bought magnets, the venues ( Le Meridien and Monte Carlo Square)
Oh! Not to forget the Hermitage tour-Bought back memories of all the wedding functions we did there for the first time, I had visited the South of France.
The Baraat holding area, The Welcome lunch and the Rituals.
The only thing the hotel has added is a Japanese Restaurant recently and renovated the Pavilion restaurant.
Menton! 7 Yrs later we do it… and No! We still haven’t done the lemon fest this time too!
The city is citrusy in colour Orange & Yellow.
You will come across a lot of Orange trees and Lemon Stores, where you can taste lemon in sauces, Dip, Jams, Syrups and Paste.
Eze! The Medieval city and the walk to the top.
Felt like a Harry Potter city with stores, and cafes built in the medieval city. It wasn’t Eze-eee!
The city had buses that would hourly travel to the main village and Bolt/Uber that would take about 15 minutes minimum before it gave in their verdict of approving or denying us a ride.
Provence- The lavender region! Had a lot of violet and lavender fragrance around.
The two cities: Aix En Provence, Avignon and Arles each were different. Avignon & Arles felt more like Italy, Rome-like architecture the city was built with.
Arles also had a mini Colosseum, that overlooked from a cafe.
Aix en Provence was beautiful with small boutique stores and weekend flea markets.
Marseille: One of the most underrated cities in France. And we were told to be watchful in the city.
The city felt like Brazil, the Le Panier district felt like São Paulo Penirinos district and Narrow lanes were built on a hill with cafés and boutique stores.
The city had all the Rio De Jinero feels.
The Pardo District and Beach. Felt like the Copacabana beach, A long stretch with a view and shades of blue with mountains as the backdrop.
The cathedral of Notre De Dame here in Marseille was a beautiful ride to the top and worth viewing the cathedral.
The Longchamp Palais in the city was another beautiful park that felt inspired by Italy.
Marseille was too big a city, we hadn’t expected the city to have so many sides to it.
Paris! A long wait! A decade later…
The city was now going through the restoration of the Notre Dame that was affected by the fire, the dazzling lights of Effile Tower were the highlight of the trip! And we sat through a long time just viewing the Structure, that has made the city a popular dream destination for many.
The Walk on the Champs Elyse’s and ride across the Arc De Triumph still felt this is Paris!
We did travel to a few more neighbourhoods around Paris, but the trees, and the energy at the champ Elyse’s was very different from the other parts.
Oh! This time too we did a few touristy things.
The new addition is Bacha cafe now in Paris, the experience was good. But nothing like the Marrakech one!
The Angelina Hot Chocolate: The 45-minute Queue for the experience had to be done once.
I felt I had better hot chocolate at Pierre Herme and Valrhona cafe.
We did visit Lenotre too, the team that we worked with on a recent project in Cannes.
And tasted some amazing desserts.
48 Hrs in Paris were more than enough.
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