FW: Italian or French Riviera?

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 8:34 PM
Author: scrb11
Subject: Italian or French Riviera?

 

Have a ticket in first half of June, fly into Nice and fly out of Paris. 18 full days on the ground. The plan was to visit Corsica for about a week, then fly to Marseille for about a week, then to Paris for a couple of days. Corsica is really borked if you want to rent a car. Apparently they stocked their fleets with low-end electric cars like the Zoe and Fiat 500e. These are small cars, can accommodate maybe a carry on suitcase at most. But the bigger problem is that the infrastructure for charging is non-existent. Some are tied to hotels, so if you're not a guest, you're out of luck. There are tons of angry reviews of Hertz and Sixt in Ajaccio airport, from people who were only offered EVs and refused refunds. Complaints about having to come back to the airport rental office to get charged and waiting in queue and waiting hours to get sufficient charge. Price are higher than on the mainland as well. So now I'm thinking of skipping Corsica and just traveling by land from Nice. I spent almost a week there last year, mostly in Nice and Villefranche sur Mer, with day trips to Ee and Monaco and Cap Martin. Never been to Menton nor Ventimiglia or Sanremo. Been to the Italian Riviera di Levante, most points east of Genoa but never west of it. The furthest east I would go is probably like Savona. The other alternative is go west from Nice. I've stayed in Cannes but it was a long time ago, visited Antibes only as day trips. I don't know if I'd drive all the way to Marseille though I believe it's at most 3 hours from Nice and less than that from Cannes. So how do the Italian towns within an hour or 90 minutes drive from the border compare to Antibes, Cannes and maybe some other towns in that area? Mainly interested in scenery, enjoying hopefully the glorious weather. Not so much museums, though I think I've been to the Picasso museum in Antibes a long time ago, because the goal is to minimize time spent indoors. Don't know if this area has anything like the Sentier des Douaniers but the probably have some coastal hikes.

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