Antibes

Small town which lies sandwiched between the Greek heritage of Nice and Cannes, known as the city’s Jazz Festival was first held in Europe since 1960 are still ongoing today. If jazz was so popular in Antibes, thanks to two masterpieces of the world’s first jazz, Louis Armstrong and King Oliver to the year 1923 lived in Cap d ‘Antibes and introduced the Afro-American music in the local community, until finally born, named Jazz Festival in Juan . The Festival is held every July, has come up with famous jazz artists of the world, like Marcus Miller, Wynton Marsalis, Salif Keita, Diana Krall, James Carter to Joshua Redman.

Not only popular in jazz, Antibes is also famous as a city of art and culture. This is thanks to the presence of a large number of artists who knit to Antibes and a lot of natural wealth to produce work there, ranging from Meissonnier, Monet, Nicolas de Staël to the Picasso who breathed his last in it. In fact, the wealth of art and culture of Antibes, can be witnessed from numerous museums spread across the city with a population of more than 73,000 people. Among others, Picasso, Archaelogy Museum, Musee du dessin Peynet and humoristique, and the Musee de la Tour (folk art museum). Even the hero of France, Napoleon Bonaparte who once lived Antibes, also rewarded with the establishment Musee Napoleonien, which still holds relics of the time he landed in 1815 after escape from Elba.

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Entering the winter in mainland Europe, Nice offers completely different scenery. From the top plane, we-eight journalists from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia were invited to work together as Air France-Le Meridien-Maison de la France to visit French Riviera Cote d’Azur-alias could feel the warmth of bright sunshine and surf combined with rolling beneath him, as if it invites us to soak feet in it.

Sure enough, once set foot out of the airport, Nice warm air with temperatures around 14 degrees Celsius, like a friendly greeting that welcomed us who are used to living in tropical countries. Along the main street Promenade Anglais in December that cut through the heart of Nice, the eye will be pampered with stunning views. On the right, white sandy beaches with clear blue water that stretches along the eye could see. The atmosphere instantly felt relaxed and holidays. Some beautiful women sunbathers sprawled curvy bodied. While the couple next door, deep kiss, as if the world belongs to only two. Truly romantic!

While on the left the road, the landscape is also no less exciting. Along the road is also filled with various shades of art building deco apartment, which on the ground floor filled with cafés, restaurants, shops, boutiques and casino. Our eyes will be lulled with bright colors of tents that is placed in front of the building or terrace-like red, green, yellow, blue and fused with the warmth of the sun.

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If you live in a city, you must be very busy with your daily jobs and other obligations you must do. Urban lifestyle always has something to do with dense schedule and little time for having fun. In this very stressful condition, some urban people will be depressed with their daily jobs and it is a sure thing that they need some kind of vacation in certain times. But, most of those people don’t have any idea about what kind of activity they can do to refresh their mind from pressure of works and other burden and so they just keep going with their business and they gradually become depressed. Does this horrible thing happen to you? Most of urban people feel this thing; therefore you should take eurostar city breaks.

Yes, city break is the best solution to refresh your mind; you have to take a break from your urban activities and try to have some fun outside with Eurostar City Breaks. For you who haven’t known about eurostar, let me give you little information about it. Eurostar is a travel agency in Europe, therefore the name is Eurostar (euro is abbreviation for Europe). The reason why I recommend you to use the service of eurostar breaks is because they have been in this industry for quite long time. They provide number of city destinations, start from Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dublin, Paris until Hong Kong. So, there is nothing better than Eurostar and if you want to find further information about Eurostar Breaks you can visit directline-citybreaks.co.uk.