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ALPHABET TRAVEL CHALLENGE
Cruising The Côte d’Azur
A to Z of my favorite travel destinations — C is for Cote d’Azur
I have an image in the back of my mind of sports cars racing along the Côte d’Azur. The characters are always wealthy jet-setters or famous spies like James Bond or Austin Powers.
It’s all part of the allure of the region growing up during the 60s and 70s. Movies often featured winding mountain roads hugging the coast with the cerulean sea and palm trees giving the picture an almost tropical feel.
That is what I went in search of when I finally visited the French Riviera.
But in reality, the Cote d’Azur is not the best place to have a car. Traffic in the cities is awful, there is no parking and when there is, it is outrageously expensive. It’s also not very easy to drive in the cities and towns with all of the tourists crossing streets wherever they like, the narrow medieval streets and alleyways, and restricted traffic zones.
