Nice could be nice - Day 2 - to/from Mont Boron Forest Park

Good morning.  Big memory-lane plans today.  First of all, I need something to eat and coffee.  Instead of paying 15 bucks for a few slices of dried out bread, why not just walk 7 steps from my BnB to the corner baker and get the €1.90 croissant and coffee offer?  It's like a bite of heaven to have a real French croissant fresh out of the baker's oven. 

This blog is about my walk to and from Mount Boron - a very large hill on the east side of Nice.  In the next blog, I will explain why this spot has such significance for me.

But for now, here are a few pix of my tour there and back.

Below photo:  The colored lines show which way and where I walked.

I start at the red line at My BnB.  I open the door and take 7 steps to get a coffee and croissant at the baker.  While eating and sipping, I continued my 1.5 km / 1 mile walk to the bus stop at the blue line.  The bus drives for 1.5km / 1 mile.  I get out at the dark green line and walk 350m / 1 quarter mile up hill.  The spot looks familiar but not quite.  Did the city update the spot? The railing is taller than I remember.   It was after all 33 years ago that I was here.  Also, a green fence is missing.  No, I don't think this is quite the spot.  It looks pretty much the same but something is wrong.   I go to the edge of the spot and look out over the railing. The view is correct but the actual spot is not this place.  I get a bit bummed.  I look straight down over the edge of the railing and Oh mi god!   There it is!   There's the spot that I am looking for.  I can see it from where I am standing.  There's also trail down to the correct spot that I am looking for.  The purple line is a 350m / 150yd trail down the hillside.  As you can see, I actually passed the correct spot while I was on the bus.  I didn't realize that.  The correct spot is where the blue line, purple line, and lime green line meet.  This is the spot that I was at 33 years ago.  I took a bunch of photos and enjoyed it all. I get the weirdest feeling writing about it now.  It makes me wish I was there again right this very minute.  After my photo session I continue down the lime green path - 350m / 1 quarter mile.  Now I am at sea level and I walk the orange line 2.35km / 1.5 miles all the way to the train station to go to my next stop: Monte Carlo.

Here are a few pix from my walk on the red line.

(Above: Remember this photo for the next blog.  There is a lot of significance to this monument.)

Carlos:  I snapped this photo for you.  Though there may not be a water taxi, the tram will take you directly to the harbor to your own docked boat.

Here are a few pix from my walk on the orange line.

And here is the spot that I was looking for.  

Click here to find out why this spot has such significance for me.

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