Re: Walk from Beaulieu sur mer to Villefranche 2 years ago Save It was a tender April 20s night - one of those I imagine Scott Fitzgerald wrote about, - gentle wind blowing from the sea, full moon above Nice, the bustling of restaurant visitors on Place Garibaldi getting quieter already after 11PM - it was off-season Wednesday after all. And it was 'round this time that I decided to take a walk from Nice to Monaco.
Well, I had no choice - I had left my card and phone charger in my friend's car who had left for Monaco much earlier. Meanwhile I had missed the last train leaving around 11PM. I figured it will take me around 5 hours to make the km journey.
If I will get really tired I will try to get a taxi, I thought. I left from the port - Quai Cassini where the night bus' stop is. I didn't have a map, and remember - my phone was off, but I figured if I will stay by the seaside it should take me to Monaco. The port area is not nice. Many shady people. One Arab-looking man stopped a car while I was waiting in a bus-stop and with a wink of a head indicated he had taken me for a hooker. I would not have walked if I'd have skirts or a dress.
My guess what traffic intensity will stop as soon I go out of a city. And I was right, just as I walked pass the ferry station I was is an up-scale area of Mont Boron with nice apartment blocks facing the sea. When looking back I could see the rows on Nice lights flashing in the warm evening air. It was prior to July 14th events. There was still some innocence in us.
The walk was easy and pleasant, not many cars on the road. From there I continued towards the Cap Ferrat. After Villefranche-sur-Mer the road became almost deserted.
