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2013-06-21 01:01
in France, France2013, Ntrips, Trips
For Day 4, we got up to drive around the area, starting with going back to La Turbie after stopping at the scenic Eze and its nice gardens:
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fantastic views
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From there, we went back to La Turbie for some great high up views:
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Le trophée des Alpes was built for one of Julius' Ceasar's children:
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this is what it looked like many years ago
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not much is left
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From there we walked down to the local quaint town attached to the monument:
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Next, we went to Nice to see the Chagall Museum. To be honest, it's mostly because we got tricked by our guidebook's author who was a personal fan for ethnic reasons. Oh well...
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the Chagall Museum was kind of a waste of time, so we took the tram to downtown nice from there and continued on foot:
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We climbed up to where the Nice castle used to be:
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We then walked down to old town:
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From there we went back to our hotel in Villefranche-sur-Mer, dinner and sleep:
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