A Snapshot of Nice

It's been a while! We've been caught up in the beginning of the Christmas rush since getting back from our weekend away as you may have read in David's post, I can't believe it's practically November already! This is just a wee snapshot of our time in Nice as a few of you have been asking what we got up to. We were only away for 4 nights so spent most of the time wandering around trying to see as much of the city as possible, it was so hot and humid so our walking was mostly split up with ice cream breaks to cool down (which seem to have escaped the camera). We spent a lot of time in the old town with it's maze of winding streets which were easy to get lost in but thankfully quite shady and filled with lots of cute independent shops. We also visited a few markets, saw the harbour, the view from the Castle Hill and ate some yummy patisserie treats. We spent half a day in Villefranche-sur-Mer which David had been wanting to visit; we took the train there then walked around the coast back. My feet weren't too happy but we had a lovely little apartment to come back to and relax in which was booked through airbnb.

Nice isn't the most chilled out of places (or maybe it's just us after getting used to living in a small village!) but it is so beautiful, the buildings are all candy coloured and everything is so bright and cheerful. On the last day we found Maisons du Monde was releasing their Christmas collections... so many pink decorations! We chose a small selection to take home for our first Christmas at the cottage, not long to go now.

Edinburgh Markets

We've been in Edinburgh for 3 full days now and managed to find 4 markets - 3 foodie ones and 1 vintage! We're staying in the Grassmarket area so first stop was the farmers market there on Saturday morning where I bought some yummy teas from Leith Tea Company. We then went up to Castle Terrace for the farmers market where we found chocolate, craft beers and Scottish tablet - yum! Next we went over to Pippin in Haymarket (one of my Mum's stockists) where I bought some goodies including a motivational Bread & Jam mug and Bomb Cosmetics Sugar and Spice candle tin (smells so good!!) also stopped at Paper Tiger where I picked up some helpful looking books. Later, on a long evening walk, we came across Bruce Munro's Field of Light installation in St. Andrew's Square, it's so pretty - like a meadow of colour changing fairy lights.

On Sunday we headed over to A Spoonful of Vintage fair but it wasn't my lucky vintage hunting day. Then we had ice cream in the rain on our way to Stockbridge market, I got Daisy some doggy doughnuts there! We had lunch at Peter's Yard which I'd heard about through Instagram and I'm glad we did, the pizza was great! The rest of the day was spent in and out of charity shops, still not my lucky day for bargain hunting though. After that we got some macarons - mango, rose and chocolate from Patisserie Madeleine and I bought some cute bits and pieces from Daisy Cheynes but can't share those yet as they're a present.

We finished off the day with cocktails at the Dragonfly Cocktail bar. I had a drink that tasted suspiciously like milkshake called a Raspberry Ripple - finished with sprinkles on the glass! David had a slightly more manly spiced apple flavoured rum drink.

Today was so busy that it's going in a separate blog post!