Hello,

Apart from the Friday market and the botanical gardens – anyone knows any attraction in Vintmille worth seeing?
And a non-oligarch eatery?

Thanks!

Hi
Balzi Rossi - about a quarter of the way out of Ventimiglia heading for the Hanbury Gardens. Its feasible to walk from Ventimiglia - I have done it as the bus schedule has large hour and three quarter holes in it - but its a little heavy on the feet.

Up in the old town theres an interesing church and some fine views down the coast.

And lots of places to eat - I prefer it to Bordighera personally. Its not fine dining - more the usual Italian snack bar fare. Check out athe beach restaurants over the bridge from the commercial side and around the corner - not the long sea front. Simple fare but tasty. I reckon all the best Italian restauranteurs moved to Nice ages ago.

Cheers

Thanks, Andrew!
Sorry I could not answer earlier – we Muscovites are in the news these days, lots of work for a translator.

And thanks for the Hanbury tips, too, the garden is fantastic, but the bus service is really nonexistent!
Is the church anywhere between the train station and the Friday market?
And where is the bridge?

I’ve eaten in Café de Paris – if I have the name right – 10 euro for 2 capuccinos and a whole large pizza (I actually meant it would be I piece)! Great service – to my liking, anyway – they give you the food and disappear and do not get on your nerves. On the beach left side.

Another intrepid public-transport adventuring soul on TripAdvisor posted this link to the Hanbury complete with the bus timetable - useful for next time!


http://www.amicihanbury.com/inglese/TrasportiEng.html

TripAdvisor is quite an interesting Forum, much more traffic, but always the same one question: I am arriving in a cruiseboat for the day (and don't want to pay 35 euros for the organised tour) how do I....."

For the other side of Ventimiglia, walk from the train station down past the covered fruit and vegetable market and keep going until you reach the fashion stuff market (Fridays) which lines the edge of the river down to the sea. The footbridge is there - there is only one river and only one footbridge cutting Ventimiglia in half, so you cant go wrong. Cross the river which flows down to the sea. Walk down to the sea and round the corner are some restaurants.

If you walk back to the bridge but instead of crossing, carry on up the road will take you to the foot of the old town.From there the road winds steeply up and up and brings you into the centre of the old town, where you can explore and find the church.

The winding road is the same one which the 10 bus for Hanbury and the French border uses. About 5 - 6 km to Hanbury, passing Balzi Rossi museum a quarter of the way.

You should feel quite at home on the Riviera. The Russians are buying up everything - one just bought La Leopolda - the finest estate on the whole Riviera - 11 hectares overlooking Cap Ferrat for a rumoured 200m euro. Another source says 60 villas on Cap Ferrat now Russian owned. Who's left in Moscow I wonder?

Hello Andrew,

I am coopying and saving your instructions, as usual, will try to make the most of it.

"The Russians are buying up everything - one just bought La Leopolda - the finest estate on the whole Riviera - 11 hectares overlooking Cap Ferrat for a rumoured 200m euro. Another source says 60 villas on Cap Ferrat now Russian owned."

That's why this will be the last time I come, I am afraid, unless I switch to Home Exchange.
For a normal working person Moscow will soon be too expensive to reside in, not to speak of the Riviera holidays.