, the thoroughfare along the Mediterranean. Go home, they ordered. Shortly after that, they barricaded the crosswalks leading to the promenade, leaving the beach deserted.During the next week, as the lockdown tightened, the mood of the city darkened. Even when I left home for a valid reason, and with all of the right paperwork, I looked over my shoulder.
Some parts of Nice look completely abandoned. Only a few homeless people remain. On my way to the grocery store, one of them stumbled toward me, murmuring to himself in French too quick for me to understand. The next day, he was gone. People have described life under the lockdown as a waking nightmare. In Nice, I prefer a cinematic analogy. After all, Cannes, the site of the famous film festival, is only half an hour's drive down the Mediterranean coast.
Every evening at 8 p.m., residents open their apartment windows and break into applause. They're clapping for the health care workers heroically putting their lives on the line to fight coronavirus. But they're also clapping for each other, applauding themselves for surviving another day in captivity. The pizza restaurant across the street stays open after 8 and drivers continue to deliver food to hungry residents. It turns out you can't impose a curfew on pizza delivery in France.
Wow for those who are in their eighties or nineties it must remind them of occupied France under NAZI Germany during WWII.....
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