As an update to my previous Winter Festivals post, today is the grand opening of the Nice Carnival – the third largest in the world! The video is a behind-the-scenes look at preparations for the grand event – don’t forget to bring your silly string!
Schedules for Nice & Menton Festivals:
Nice Carnival
Friday 15th February
8.30pm Opening Festivities, free entrance
16th + 23rd February, 2nd March
2.30pm Flower Parade
9.00pm Carnival Parade of lights
Sunday 17th February
8.30am Carnival Race: ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll 10 Miles’
12.00pm Carnival Swim Free entrance
19th, 24th, 26th February, 3rd March
2.30pm Carnival Parade
20th + 27th February, 6th March
2.30pm Flower Parade
Saturday 2nd March
2.30pm Flower Parade
9.00pm Carnival Parade of lights
Tuesday 5th March
9.00pm Carnival Parade of lights
Wednesday 6th March
9.30pm Closing Festivities Burning of the King and firework display
Menton Lemon Festival
Saturday 16th February to Wednesday 6th March
Citrus Exhibition
Biovès Gardens Weekdays: 10am-6pm
Weekends: 9am-6pm (16th Feb opens 1pm)
Sunday 17th, Thursday 21st, Sunday 24th, Thursday 28th February
Biovès Gardens From 8.30pm to 10.30pm
Sunday 17th + 24th February, 3rd March
Parade, Promenade du Soleil From 2.30pm
Sunday 3rd March Promenade du Soleil
Closing Ceremony
Fireworks from 9pm at Esplanade Francis Palmero
Fridays 22nd February + 1st March
Night Parades
Promenade du Soleil 8.30pm
24/7 in FRANCE 
Just testing to see if this mail gets to you as last one didn’t using this reply .
I will go on Monday – so hope to see you then and we can plan a Carnival get together?
A x
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OK, see you Mon at coffee!
I think, if I was living in France, I could be employed as a full-time festival-goer! So much fun!
It is fun, but with a million people in Nice for the carnaval, the traffic is a nightmare for us locals 🙂