A Morning in Antibes, France

the most idyllic town on the côte d'azur

Jul 19, 2026

Friends, hello — happy Sunday! I hope this post finds you well. I’m dropping by for the briefest of moments to share a very short-yet-sweet travel offering with you: A Morning in Antibes, France. As you might remember, Husband, Bean, and I spent 1-week frolicking around Nice back at the beginning of May, and, luckily, we managed to squeeze this little outing to Antibes into our itinerary! We spent a very relaxing 2-ish hours wandering around the town with absolutely no plans and no to-hit list — it was perfect! Antibes is absolutely gorgeous: there are many beautifully winding streets, the waterfront is stunning, the café scene is hopping, and, honestly, every single corner is a postcard just waiting to happen. I was blown away by the place!

This is less of a guide and more of a photo journal — a few snaps of pretty places and little descriptions of what we were doing or where we were wandering when we came across them. It’s basically a diary entry, but we just had such a beautiful morning that I didn’t want to forget a thing.

Enjoy!

a morning in antibes

We ultimately decided we’d go to Antibes for the morning about 1.5-hours before we boarded the train to take us there. Here’s how we made the journey from Nice:

I used the SNCF Connect app to buy our train tickets before we even walked through the doors at Nice-Ville train station. We knew from past experience that the train station is always hectic, and I’d used the SNCF app a handful of times before — for Saint-Émilion / Bordeaux / Villefranche-sur-Mer — so I knew it would save us a headache.
a one-way ticket cost us €6.70 each — under 4s go free, so there was no charge for Bean — and they appeared on my app in the form of a QR code. There was no discount for buying a return ticket, so we decided to just play it by ear and see when we felt like returning.
there’s only six stops between Nice and Antibes, so the journey was a handy 27-minutes. There are trains that can get you there in 21-minutes, but they were all booked out — and, really, what difference does 6-minutes make?
our train was super busy when we got on, but we managed to nab a spot for us + the buggy in a bicycle seating area. From what we overheard, most of the other passengers were heading onwards to Cannes, so we were happy to leave the bulk of other tourists behind us.

… And then we were in Antibes!

Upon leaving Antibes train station, we decided to forego any map checking and instead make our way into town by instinctual feel alone. Our first discovery of the day was the beautiful Port Vauban, the largest yachting marina in all of Europe!

The water was positively glimmering in the sunshine, and we really enjoyed strolling along the waterfront looking at all the fancy boats and the tiny little fishies swimming along beside the boardwalk.

We followed the natural curve of the promenade around and came across the Porte Marine gateway into the Old Town. According to the internet, the gate dates back to the 16th century and was once the only way to get down to the port from the walled-in town!

The gate led us out onto Boulevard d'Aguillon, which was a bustling little hotspot; it seemed like there was a buzzy restaurant, cool art store, or exceptionally chic café everywhere we turned.

Seeking a slightly less busy area, we headed straight up Rue Thuret and deeper into the centre of the Old Town.

We wandered past some truly gorgeous restaurants and shops on our way — I mean, how beautiful is the above restaurant? It almost looks like a filmset! I love the way the tables are decorated with big vases of produce: peppers, celery, carrots, garlic, etc. I am also obsessed with the decorative squash tiling just over the entryway; so cute!

cute bunting // rue du petit four // colourful lanterns

From there, I lost track of the street names and just enjoyed the wandering. We didn’t have any plans or places we wanted to see, so we let fate take us where it wanted and went with the flow.

Whenever we reached the end of one cute alleyway, we wandered onto the next, and so on and so forth — it was beautiful!

There was a cute little market set up on the town square, almost every street was adorned with bunting or cute hanging lanterns, and the Marché Provençal, which we ducked our heads into for just a second, was a haven of fresh produce.

Eventually fate led us to the most wonderful find: Petit Monsieur. A fortuitously free table appeared just as we happened to walk by, and it was located just out of the way enough that we could fit Bean’s buggy right up alongside us.

Husband went in to order the coffees — un cappuccino pour moi et un café allongé pour lui — and came back outside a few minutes later with, what turned out to be, the best cookie we’ve ever tasted.

Bigger than the size of my coffee cup, we guesstimated that this one cookie was probably the equivalent of four regular cookies — and thank goodness, because it was so ridiculously delicious that we gobbled it up in no time! Along with being pleasingly portioned, it was also delightfully THICK, warm, gooey, absolutely laden with mini chocolate chips, and practically oozing butter. We died and went to cookie heaven.

We lingered over our coffees for a while longer, feeding Bean, people watching, and generally soaking up the French-ness of the place.

Starting to get hungry thinking about the lunch Husband was going to whip us up back in Nice, we decided to check the train times and booked onto one leaving Antibes in 25-minutes.

Approximately 15-minutes later we were back at Port Vauban having one final look at the fancy yachts, and another handful of minutes after that we were back at the station waiting for our train.

The perfect little trip!

map our trip

To make life easier, I’ve marked everywhere listed in this guide onto Google Maps for you! Simply click on the image above — or click here — to go through to a digital map that’ll open straight into your Google Maps.