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DaineseMan
Original Poster
513 posts
19 months
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We're renting a villa in Juan les Pins for a week during the first week of September so was wondering if anyone had any recommendations of things to do (both nightlife and day) in the area (ie. Cannes, St. Tropes, Nice, Monte Carlo etc). We're renting a car so getting around won't be a problem.
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TheHeretic
69,407 posts
125 months
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Rob a bank by gunpoint, then have a nice coastal road getaway, in a nice, comfy car. A little bit Ronin, so to speak.
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AtticusFinch
1,891 posts
53 months
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Visit Nice (Flower market old town big park thingy on a hill Mont Baron I think)
Visit Mougins (restaurants)
Walk round cap-Ferat (and any other "Caps" you can find)+ Rothchild villa and gardens
Visit Villefranch-sur-mer
Vist EZE
That should keep you going for a bit
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audidoody
5,258 posts
126 months
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audidoody
5,258 posts
126 months
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audidoody
5,258 posts
126 months
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audidoody
5,258 posts
126 months
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audidoody
5,258 posts
126 months
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AtticusFinch
1,891 posts
53 months
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audidoody said: Market day at Antibes Okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy we get the message (Antibes is well worth a visit though)
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Kudos
2,103 posts
44 months
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Go and look at the big boats in Antibes
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DaineseMan
Original Poster
513 posts
19 months
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Any good driving roads round there?
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vescaegg
2,195 posts
37 months
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DaineseMan said: Any good driving roads round there? Route Napoleon 
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Le TVR
2,253 posts
121 months
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vescaegg said: DaineseMan said: Any good driving roads round there? Route Napoleon 'Special treat today Love, I'm taking you to the Fragonard perfume museum and shop in Grasse'. (Its on the Route Napoleon.) 'While we're here lets drive a bit further and find somewhere for lunch'. Works every time and you score many Brownie points too 
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DaineseMan
Original Poster
513 posts
19 months
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Le TVR said: vescaegg said: DaineseMan said: Any good driving roads round there? Route Napoleon 'Special treat today Love, I'm taking you to the Fragonard perfume museum and shop in Grasse'. (Its on the Route Napoleon.) 'While we're here lets drive a bit further and find somewhere for lunch'. Works every time and you score many Brownie points too Nice one!
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torqueofthedevil
955 posts
47 months
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Sitting in a bar on the port in St Tropez. Watching jousting on the boats in Cassis. Calanques in Cassis.
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Hackney
1,772 posts
78 months
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Kudos said: Go and look at the big boats in Antibes And while you're there, check out the market. I've heard many things about it. Also to drive, col du torini, and Monaco if you fancy it in the morning. Saint Paul de Vence is nice too
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Fishtigua
3,087 posts
65 months
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A visit to St. Paul de Vence or the market over the border in Ventemiglia on a Friday. Dare I say Antibes market? I used to live across the street from there. A trip up to Biot if there is a band playing in the square for the evening. Le Poste is a nice cafe.
Perfumes in the air around Grasse, take the back roads with the roof/windows down. The Moulin du Mougins is a 4**** restaurant and jolly pricey but on the road there, there is a pizza van with a wood oven, best ever. The seafood restaurant right at the far end of the Croisette in Cannes, not far from the cop-shop, does a mean plat royale of fishy things.
To be honest, on my day off, I just got on the bike and got lost in the hills. Back road bliss.
Some of my family still live down there but get the hell out for August and only return in the middle of September. It's full of bloody tourists, you know.;)
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HaylingJag
678 posts
18 months
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If you go to St Tropez stop at St Maxime and take the boat across from the port. Saves the drive round which can be congested most times if the day and is also a nice trip across the bay. I'm off to St Max on the 10th and can't wait. I second the a route Napolien, I normally do this on the way down there and get a hotel to break the journey. " but this is the only way to the Cote D'Azur hunny" usually suffices and it gets the drive out of the way early on!!
Port Grimaud is a good evening out, plenty of restaurants and boatyard trips. Good karting track outside of Grimaud by the heliport and another at Frejus, just along from the funfair.
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DaineseMan
Original Poster
513 posts
19 months
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Where's the best for nightlife? Nice, Juan les Pins, Cannes or St Tropez?
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Not Ideal
1,984 posts
58 months
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Cannes & St Trops will be your best bet for nightlife.
Juan Les Pins is more beach restaurant type scene.
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