From the airport in Nice we take a taxi to our hotel. 40 €. = about $50 AND
we give him a tip… But the Hotel Ellington is nice. On a beautiful tree
lined street a bit away from the active tourist area but close enough to walk
where ever we want to go. The room is neat and pretty spacious for a
European hotel. There is free wi-fi in the bar area and scads of black and
white prints of jazz artists on the walls.
We drop our bags on the bed and I scurry to change the lens on my camera
to hit the streets. "Oh no." I discover my card reader is not in the camera
bag :~( . This makes my need to get out and into a store urgent – No card
reader –is a disaster in the making. We get directions to a nearby FNAC
(a Best Buy type of store) and are on our way. At FNAC they only have
CF card readers that use a USB connection – bad news for me – it will take
forever to download images from the 5D Mark II…. I buy it anyway, but
get directions to a professional camera store - just in case.
With no time to waste, most stores will close soon and since tomorrow is
Sunday, and Monday is a National holiday – there will be no chance to
purchase a card reader if I don’t get it today. So it is off on a trot…. We
make it to Rue Massena and a gaggle of tourists but luckily, Arta-Photo
store is still open, and they do have a card reader that connects by Firewire.
Whew…. disaster averted.
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Rue Massena - only pedestrians are allowed.
Restaurants and shops line the street.
The street vendors waiting patiently for the all the stores to pull down their shutters.
Once the regular stores are closed for the evening,
the street vendors display their wares.
the street vendors display their wares.
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