Saturday, May 04, 2013
Thursday, May 02, 2013
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Friday, April 26, 2013
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Monday, November 19, 2012
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
JT 19-20 Côte d'Azur - pluzz.fr - voir ou revoir les programmes de france télévisions - France Télévisions
In this report, it says that there is a prefectoral decree forbidding the burning of vegetation in jardins except in the case of "tres gros". What does that cover. The woman speaking is the adjoint d l'environnement du Mairie - THIEBAUD. Mentioned various programs to promote composting with the free containers and composting centers. Major Mayor campaign, it says. How does it work?
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Monday, November 05, 2012
Saturday, November 03, 2012
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
"Le trafic maritime Corse-continent augmente... mais baisse sur le port de Nice" - Nice-Matin
Is it a good or bad thing for us that the traffic to Corsica from the Port de Nice is down a little this summer?
Sunday, September 09, 2012
Saturday, September 08, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Thursday, August 09, 2012
Saturday, August 04, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Sentier
Piece with CIOTTI on France 3 at beginning of July - talking about the sentier plans.....on Cap de Nice.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Friday, June 22, 2012
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
‘Hatfields & McCoys,’ With Kevin Costner, on History Channel - NYTimes.com
There is even some relevance here to life in parts of Mont Boron!
Friday, April 13, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Monday, April 09, 2012
Sunday, April 08, 2012
Saturday, November 05, 2011
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
"La gare du Midi à Bruxelles, vue par Jean Nouvel" - L'Internaute Actualite
What is the status of his project on Mont Boron?
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Sunday, April 03, 2011
Three projects
I'd love to get an update on three projects here:
1 - Opening Fort Alban to the public. What's been the response and the result?
2 - Mt Boron. What is the status of Jean NOUVEL's project?
3 - Sentier. Where do we stand on completing the sentier around the Cap de Nice?
1 - Opening Fort Alban to the public. What's been the response and the result?
2 - Mt Boron. What is the status of Jean NOUVEL's project?
3 - Sentier. Where do we stand on completing the sentier around the Cap de Nice?
Saturday, April 02, 2011
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Newspapers
Today I fond 20 Minutes and Metro, two of our free circulation newpspaers, at the bus stop at the Place du Mt Boron. That is not always the case, and it would be very nice if we knew when and where the newspapers would likely be there in the future. If Nice Matin only could use vending machines, we could buy that paper there as well.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Police
It seems to me that I am seeing a lot more municipal police cars driving along the Route Forestiere. That's a nice development, as they seem simply to be passing through and not responding to calls.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Water testing
It looked to me as thougth someone had been testing the fire hydrants today on the Avenue des Hesperides. It is always encouraging to see things working as they should!
Crosswalk
Don't we need a crosswalk on the Basse Corniche at the foot of the l'Escalier du Ciel, I think it is called going up from the Basse to the Avenue des Hesperides?
Nice Matin story
Nice Matin ran a full page story about Mont Boron and its plants on 19 Jan 2011 (p.10). Lovely photos to go with the story.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Velos bleus
Will we ever get a bike rack for Velos Bleus on Mt Boron? The closest is at sea level near the Port.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Shopping options
We have so many places where we can walk, bus and, if necessary, drive or train to reach. I will try to create a map illustrating some of these options.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Friday, January 07, 2011
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Cameras
I understand we are going to get some surveillane cameras up on the top of Mt Boron. That's a good move.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Bus speed?
Two of my most recent rides on the 14 - this past week - have been and breathtaking speeds, well over the 30 km/h speed limit. To whom can we complain and will it make any difference?
Friday, October 29, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
"Star Architect Jean Nouvel" - CBS News Video
Our second most famous neighbor on Mont Boron! (The most famous is surley Sir Elton John.)
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Nice Mont-Boron : le projet de Jean Nouvel se peaufine et se précise | nicematin.com
I intend to get an update on this project.
If you didn't like the last grocery walk, here is another....
A minute from our house - literally - we are back into the Mt Boron Forest for a walk to the grocery store in Villefranche sur/Mer.
This is much more rustic than the first walk, but no less pretty. Here we approach one of the exercise stations along one fo the trails.
This panel shows the complicated path one needs to travel to pass- and hopefully, use! - the exercise stations!
If one wants to picnic, here is one option.
This is the view you would have over the picnic basket! That's Villefranche sur/Mer down there, the center of which begins near the top of the lefthand side of the photo. The water is called the "rade" or bay, of Villefranche. In the foreground, the area is called the "darse" and is a multifunction area dating back more than a 1000 years, now ranging from the marina to a shipyard and saliling/shell center.
Back to the walk down the hill, here's what you find next!
And when you get down to the level of the "Basse" or Lower Corniche, there is a nice sidewalk. I have never undersood the bike lanes to be honest. I think they are a great idea, but it is really only a bike "lane" here, with none in the other direction. Maybe it is just a case of "you have to visit Villefranche, but you don't have to leave!"
The Russians are not coming (again), they have arrived in large, rich numbers.
My grocery trip really has two parts to it. Here is the first, the Saturday market, where I bought tomatoes, fennel, garlic, string beans, squash, and pepper. I bought a total of 5 lbs altogether, for a total price of 7.50 USD. That's 1.50/lb on average.
The other half of my grocery trip was to the local frozen food store. I don't understand why we don't have these in North Carolina; they are very popular here, and many, inclding this one, offer home delivery. Excellent products and choices.
Before heading back up the hill, I, of course, had to pick up the Nice-Matin newspaper here!
Total walking time - about 25 mins.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Benches at Fort Alban
It occurred to me today that it would be lovely to have a few benches installed at Fort Alban overlooking Villefranche. That area attracts a lot of visitors and while one can sit on the stone wall, it would be so much nicer to have a bench seat on which to sit.
I'll try to find the right suggestion box into which to insert this idea.
I'll try to find the right suggestion box into which to insert this idea.
One of the world's better walks to the grocery store?
Shortly after leaving our house, I find myself in the park that surrounds us. The "Forest Park" of Mt Boron is the biggest in Nice, and spectacular. It is laced with paths like this one. We are 600 feet above the Mediterranean.
If that view is not attractive, turn to your right and here is what you see. That's the Port of Nice down there, doing lots of things including serving as the port of departure for regular ferry service to the wonderful island of Corsica. The Port is a twenty minute walk from this point, if you want to go down!
Yes, that's the Mediterranean out there. And, yes, cactus in the foreground!
World War II left a big impression here. These are remnants of a German bunker.
Now, while still on the grocery store path, we are looking toward Italy, via Monaco and the three famous Corniches that connect us and Monaco. Directly below is the deepest harbor in the Mediterranean, former headquarters for both the US and Russian Navy operating in the Mediterranean (at far different points in history!), and now a center for both cruise ships and oceanographic research.
This is Cap Ferat, the most expensive piece of real estate in France, by many estimates. Off beyond the lighthouse at the tip of the peninsula is Corsica.
Back to the grocery walk, we are now winding our way back in the direction of Nice, which lies slightly in the distance and to the left of which is its airport. The airport is about 6 miles from here.
Yes, we live by a number of rules, but not too many. This is one of the more complex governing only when trucks can offload. I seldom see any trucks and yet we have the rules because the road is so narrow! (One of the rules not enforced very much, but still nice, is that only the couple of hundred of us who actually live in the Park are supposed to be here at night.)
It gets a lot narrower before we arrive at the grocery carts!
I'd argue that it gets even prettier, too! This is the same Port of Nice that was hidden a bit in the trees higher up the hill.
And now we've arrived at the Carrefour Market which shares this building with a cleaners and a pharmacy.
And we have a number of other businesses here from a florist to a real estate agency, a small cafe and newsstand, and, occasionally, some others appears.
Time to shop! How to resist those tomatoes at 50 (US) cents a pound! Join me the next time?
Total walking time? About 25 minutes.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
"Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche sur Mer" -- Bienvenue
One of our most interesting Mt Boron neighbors!
"La boulangère ne rend plus la monnaie!" - nicematin.com
This is the same boulanger who serves us so well from Col. They have two locations....and two such machines! I was reminded just today to use it for coins. As for dirty paper money?
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