Today France had a large nationwide strike protesting the planned raising of the retirement age to 64. Luckily, I didn’t have any travel planned today, but even within Nice, none of the trams were running and as far as I could tell neither were the buses. When I went out this morning, I ended up on the ocean and the strikers were amassing to start their march. It seemed more like a party or a mobile rock concert. Anyway, I wanted to check out the daily fish market, which was going to be a bit of walk, so figured out how to use the local VeloBleu bike share system. It only 1.50 euros/day and as long as you return the bike before 30 minutes that is it. The first one was a little tricky as they have you call a number on the screen by phone and based on caller ID it releases a bike for you. Once figured out, it is fairly straight forward. So rode a bike up the market at Pl. Liberation. Not that much going on, but sunny and pleasant, and as I sat down for some lunch, the marchers came through. Fairly large crowd. After a few more bike rentals, wended my way back to the center via a bakery that had some GF things, and did some more walking around. Met with a Nice realtor of British background and had an interesting conversation about the market here. Dinner at Le Bar des Oiseaux was very good.