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The Riviera
this summer
The Summer
of Matisse
To mark 50 years of the
Matisse Museum, until 23
September Nice hosts
eight exhibitions – plus
talks and concerts –
themed around the
colourful artist, who
lived in the city for the
last 37 years of his life.
matisse2013.nice.fr
Les Lives du
Théâtre de
Verdure 2013
This open-air theatre in
Nice was built in 1945
and has hosted artists
from Serge Gainsbourg
to The Cure. This
summer’s programme
includes chansons from
Sylvie Vartan (4 Aug), as
well as comedy in Les
Plages du Rire (3-10
Aug). And Ibiza comes to
the venue 30-31 Aug.
tdv-nice.org
Nice Rafting
For something a little bit
different, Nice Rafting
offers hydrospeed –
rushing down the river
on a float – or canoe-
rafting in the Gorge de la
Roya near Nice.
nicerafting.com
The Matisse
Museum
We usually bring energy bars and
gels, and aren’t really headed for any
particular restaurants – it’s more about
re-fuelling. But the food’s almost always good.
Any upscale restaurant would have issues allowing
sweaty, salty cyclists in lycra tights to the table, so
don’t go with fine dining ideas.
You can get a great relaxed meal at the Auberge
du Vieux Château restaurant in Cabris, near
Grasse, and mountaintop village Gourdon is also
worth a stop for the view. If you pass Carros,
north of Nice, you should definitely stop at the
Crêperie du Moment – they serve amazing crêpes.
Norwegian flies to Nice from Oslo, Stockholm,
Copenhagen, Helsinki, London Gatwick,
Sandefjord-Torp, Bergen, Stavanger and
Trondheim. Book flights at norwegian.com
The pit-stops
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Mussels at
L’Escapade Brasserie, Sainte-Maxime; pausing as a bigger
group of cyclists goes by; admiring the view in Cabris; the
mountain village of Gourdon
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