{"id":127,"date":"2010-05-07T12:23:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T12:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2010-05-07T12:23:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T12:23:47","slug":"storm-2010-nice-beaches-still-in-disarray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/storm-2010-nice-beaches-still-in-disarray\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm 2010: Nice Beaches Still in Disarray"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_128\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/beach-work.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128\" title=\"beach-work\" src=\"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/beach-work.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trying to get back to normal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The cleanup continues on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchrivieratraveller.com\/Nice\/Beaches.htm\">Nice beaches<\/a> as <em>plagistes <\/em>try to salvage their livelihoods after the devastating <a href=\"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/cannes-beaches-washed-away\/2010\/05\/05\/\">storm<\/a> a few days ago. A tour of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchrivieratraveller.com\/Nice\/Sights\/Promenade.html\">Promenade des Anglais<\/a> this morning revealed furious efforts to remove the debris, sand and stones that blight Nice&#8217;s most beloved beach restaurants. The upcoming holiday weekend that typically marks the start of the beach season adds urgency to the situation. <em>Plagistes <\/em>already suffered from poor weather that delayed the start of their season before the storm swept through.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_129\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/florida.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129\" class=\"size-full wp-image-129\" title=\"florida\" src=\"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/florida.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida beach under 20cm of sand<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now, it seems as though only five beach restaurants will be fit to open this weekend: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchrivieratraveller.com\/Nice\/Beaches.htm\">Miami, Blue Beach, le Sporting, le Ruhl and le Galion<\/a>. For whatever reason, these restaurants seemed to have suffered less damage than the others. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchrivieratraveller.com\/Nice\/Beaches.htm\">Castel, Opera, Hi Beach, le Voilier, Bambou, Neptune<\/a> and others are still digging out. A newly-announced government grant of \u20ac200,000 earmarked for the <em>plagistes<\/em> should help kickstart the season for them. Let&#8217;s hope so.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_130\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/castel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130\" title=\"castel\" src=\"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/castel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Castel beach; the work continues<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Prom&#8217; was an obstacle course of trucks, pumps, municipal vehicules and tools this morning. Adding to the chaos was a huge section of pavement torn-up for drainage repairs, not to mention the scaffolding obscuring the facade of the Negresco that&#8217;s undergoing renovation. Neither has to do with the storm but the overall effect is to remind Nicois that the easy days of summer are far away.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchrivieratraveller.com\/Nice\/Beaches.htm\">Nice beaches <\/a>and the<a href=\"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/cannes-beaches-washed-away\/2010\/05\/05\/\"> storm of 2010.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cleanup continues on Nice beaches as plagistes try to salvage their livelihoods after the devastating storm a few days ago. A tour of the Promenade des Anglais this morning revealed furious efforts to remove the debris, sand and stones that blight Nice&#8217;s most beloved beach restaurants. The upcoming holiday <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/storm-2010-nice-beaches-still-in-disarray\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23,24],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nice","tag-nice-beaches","tag-storm-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}