Thanks to a bomb scare which turned out to be a false alarm, the French Riviera became everything we've imagined and more yesterday. When the posh seaside Hotel Negresco alerted its 158 guests and staff to a bomb threat, they fled the building in all states at the break of dawn.
Among them was French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaulthier, who fled the hotel clad only in a white dressing gown and joined other alarmed guests by the beach. Apparently the bomb threat was called in by a woman who said that it would detonate at 6:00 AM, and when it hadn't by 7:00 AM, the scene dispersed and the hotel returned to normal.
Threats have been numerous in the area since French President Nicolas Sarkozy is vacationing nearby, but this bomb scare managed to turn the Promenade des Anglais into a dramatic scene straight from a movie. If we hadn't already been to Nice ourselves to see the grit and the rats all over town, then this image of a dawn emergency at an iconic hotel could have taken on a rose-hued beauty in our minds.
[Photo: Alex Gool]
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