A Quickie

No, not that kind of quickie.

I don’t have time to write a full blog entry. Leon arrived yesterday evening. (In the latest phase of my cold, I have been coughing like crazy so I didn’t go to class and spent the day working on my enviro essay, so there’s nothing exciting to report on my daytime front.)

After putting his stuff in the apartment and getting organized, we headed out for dinner. We got to Vieux Nice (I decided to try the restaurant that rejects us one more time) and it was crazy busy. It is usually full, but it seemed more animated than usual. When we hit one of the squares, there was loud, rhythmic drumming. We wandered over and it was just a drumming circle but I suspected that it was part of the Fete de la Musique here in Nice. There have been signs about la fete but I thought it was happening next week, but everywhere we went, there was music playing.

We went to the restaurant, which was full, but they said if we came back in half an hour they’d have a table for us. Turns out the hot waiter has a brother who is even hotter so Leon was quite pleased with our dinner venue choice. We had an apperatif at a nearby bar and then returned for our meal at Acchiardo. It was good meal, but nothing spectacular after all that effort.

After dinner, we wandered around and the streets were crazy alive. We stumbled onto a quasi rave and joined in the dancing for a while. Then we went to get Leon ice cream and got separated in the crush in front of a live band in front of Wayne’s. It was crazy but great and I loved that it was all happening on a Monday night. After perching myself on a chair so that I was head and shoulders above the crowd, Leon spotted me and we were reunited. We wandered around a bit and then headed home since my coughing had kept me awake most of the night before and I had to be in class in the morning.

Part of the impromptu party we stumbled upon.

Leon being very subdued

I get caught up in the music.

A guy dancing on a table next to the DJ

Aahh drinking in the street... so civilized.

Nous deux.

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