Today my poor abused feet spoke up and asked me to take them on Le Grand Tour of Nice—a horribly touristy hop on hop off double decker bus around the city. It was pretty nice (nice in Nice!) to sit back on the bus seats and have a pre-recorded voice tell me all about the city without exhausting myself unnecessarily. My first "hop off" stop was near the Roman archeology sites, the Matisse museum (Matisse lived in Nice for the last few decades of his life) as well as the Monastère Notre Dame de Cimiez. I didn't go into the Matisse museum because I saw his travelling exhibit when it was in Edmonton in February and I just don't understand enough of the Art History around his works to fully appreciate them. Instead, I had lunch in the olive grove that surrounds his museum and then checked out the cemetery behind the church, where Matisse and his wife have their own special little grove entirely dedicated to them. The top of the stone box their bodies are in is covered in pebbles and notes full of words of thanks and little drawings. It was pretty cool to see how powerfully Matisse has affected others.
I also hopped off at the National Marc Chagall museum, which had a great audio commentary for his paintings based on the Old Testament. I had never heard of him before, but he's a great artist.
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