~Nice, France~

Nice, France

What a gorgeous city!

The city is nicknamed Nice la Belle which means "Nice the Beautiful"

No wonder they have filmed some romantic movies here . . .

(psssst these are from our last vaca . . . catching up on posting/editting before the next one! Lol slacker!!!)

The buildings on the "Promenade des Anglais" are so pretty:

 And I bet the hotels are crazy expensive on the Promenade

Cutie!

What a gorgeous beach!

 And I love the buildings and colors . . . look at the yellow!

 Anywhere in France you can find amazing cafe's and bakeries . . . always gotta test the local foods right?  Yum!

That's our Nice, France experience . . . next up from our last vaca: Eze, France.

Trying to get caught up by next Monday!

4 more posts of vacation in Europe pics, stay tuned!

How was your weekend?!

~Tamara Nicole~

~European Vaca Day #8: Villefranche, France~

3 weeks and counting until the next vaca

which means I have to hurry and catch up on posting the last one . . . before we take another onslaught of thousands of pics!

(For the recap of Days 1-7 check out the links here)

Villefranche, France

aka Villefranche-sur-Mer

An absolutely stunning, breathtaking place to visit!

What I love about this place:

The bakeries (yum!)

The local fish and produce markets

The amazing views

The colorful buildings

The gorgeous beaches

Pretty much the prettiest port town we saw.

We only had about 4 hours here . . . but we walked all over and enjoyed it all!

Here's our day in a beautiful town:

 Mmmm bakeries! One of my fave (of many) parts of France

Love the narrow streets and fun colored buildings!

 Ha ha this guy gave us a thumbs up after the pic, how cute he carries his dog around with him on his ride.

(ok let's not even think about how unsafe it is, it's France not the U.S!)

Andy getting his tootsies wet

 Our cruise ship in the background

Silly hubby!

See, pretty amazing huh?!

No wonder so many movies are filmed in this beautiful harbor!

Next stop: Nice, France.

Enjoy your week loves!!!

~Tamara Nicole~

~European Vaca . . . Day #7: Florence!~

I have to get this posted before our next trip in like 5 weeks! He he

If you missed them, Days: 1,2,3,4,5,6

Now on to Firenze (Florence) Italy . . .

known for it amazing art as well as food

Florence is the "birthplace of the Renaissance"

And the birthplace of many famous artists such as:

 "Dante, Boccaccio, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Niccolò Machiavelli, Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Donatello, Galileo Galilei, Catherine de' Medici, Luigi Cherubini, Antonio Meucci, Guccio Gucci, Franco Zeffirelli, Salvatore Ferragamo, Roberto Cavalli, Leonardo Bruni, Coluccio Salutati, and Emilio Pucci."

(wikipedia)

Main stops:

Pitti Palace and Ufiizi Gallery

Here's a few pics from our Florence experience:

I am a big fan of the architecture and statues . . . oh and doors!

If you look closely you can see old paintings on the walls!

Me!

The ever famous statue of David

Ponte Vecchio: the famous bridge in Florence where merchants sell expensive jewelry, but you can bargain!

 Ok this is hands down my favorite part of Florence: the food! We stopped at this little place and had one of the best food experiences we had on this trip . . .

uh.maz.ing!

I had some truffle pasta dish . . . heaven!

Andy's a big lasagna fan

We had suuuch a fun time at this place, we will be back to feast in November!!!

Ok funny thing . . . when we travel and see westies we get all excited and stalk them.  Happens each trip and we take pics.  Guess we just miss our lil boogs so much!

Nice!

Can't wait to go back in November.

Have any of you been to Florence?