Promptly at 2 p.m. today, I parked my car at NCE (Nice airport), terminal 1. Regular readers, or at least those familiar with yesterday’s entry, know that I was there for a pick-up (always a great deal more enjoyable than a drop-off) and that my car was squeaky clean. Nice, the airport serving Monaco and the Côte d’Azur, is the busiest in France after Charles-de-Gaulle and Orly in Paris. In 2008, there were 183,612 airplane movements, an average of just over 500 takeoffs and landings per day. Not too bad for a two-runway airport! The 2008 passenger count was 10,382,566, or over 28,300 per day. The layout can be viewed in Google Earth (N 43° 39.95', E 7° 12.78'); the GPS receiver in the iPhone nailed the exact spot from where this photo was taken.