For those after a year-round pied-à-terre, with more sun than Paris or Bordeaux, Nice is hard to beat.
After buying an apartment there during the pandemic, Clare Williams Fannin and her husband Stephen have enjoyed their first Nice Carnival, the annual celebration to mark the onset of spring.
“March or April is a great time and not too hot to do a stunning walk along the coastal rocks to Villefranche-sur-Mer [an upmarket resort town just to the east],” she says.
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The city’s diverse array of restaurants helped to win her over while working there in the travel industry. “I also like the art, the opera, the jazz bars,” says Williams Fannin, 62, from Reigate, Surrey. “Because we wanted somewhere suited to regular weekends in the
