Cote d'Azur, Land of Reveries (1)

The five-and-a-half-hour TGV (high-speed train) trip from Paris

to Nice (on September 20) didn’t feel that long, probably because of one’s

excitement and yearning for the destination. My plan was to make Nice our home

base and to take daily excursion trips to nearby Riviera

towns. Thus I had chosen a hotel very near to the Nice-Ville train station.

As the tr…