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ok, it was more "collecting a new country" than being really interested in Monaco. Strange, when you go there from Nice airport by bus it costs you 18 € one way, when you go from Nice bus terminal it costs 1 € one way. Monaco is a very clean city. I have never seen so many big and expensive cars. I saw the casino and the castle. Nice, but not spectacular.

I know I always write the same...great weather, such a nice city, good food....but I have to say that Nice was a (very) big surprise for me, I can say that it is my favourite city in Europe (ok, number 2 after Lisbon). You have the mountains, the Cote dŽAzur (when you see the water you know why the name is Cote dŽAzur), the market with fresh vegetables, fruits, honey, oil, soap, you have great restaurants ...

... gesture. We can't change the world but we can change the way these children start off in life and who knows where that will lead....

It is less than 4 weeks now until I leave. There is much to do. I am trying to prepare myself for "teaching" 20 - 25 children. A bit of a challenge that. Much as I have known that I have always wanted to do something like this, now that it ...

... hand lounge chairs. Thus we have to be pretty organised - everything has a home and has to go back there as soon as you've finished with it. This also means that every takes a long time... so our alarm goes off at 6,30am. This gives us 30 min to awake from our sleepy haze then coffee and breakfast 1/2 hr. Then make the bed into table and chairs. Change into running gear and run round the current place of abode. Shower and dress... even if we did everything with military ...

... and just a main for Dee. This way, we could share the entree and dessert, without breaking the bank. For our entree we chose salad nicoise, as we figured when in Rome.... it was very nice (no pun intended) and Dee is already pumped to make it back home.

Thus concluded our stay on the French Riviera, a place we have definitely earmarked as somewhere to come back to, however we'll make sure its summer next time (and Dee will get a tan before arriving, so as not to offend the locals). Next stop, Barcelona.

... finally found a brilliant tyre place that sorted us out, he spoke a bit of English and was happy to chat about his upcoming trip to Silverstone with a couple of brits and after about 2 minutes he figured the power steering fluid must have a minor leak, he topped us up with free fluid, oil and water, checked all the wheels and the van was ready to go, put that in your pipe VW dealers! A really nice bloke he'll never really know how grateful we were ...

Blackboard would have been proudBlackboard (of Mr Squiggle fame) would have been proud with the path we took to get to Nice from Barge. Our day started with us gaining an hour as daylight saving had finished the night before; a fact we didn't know until we turned up for breakfast an hour earlier than our hosts were expecting. I commented to Silvia (one of our hosts) that this explained why the church tolled five times at ...

... and I was cranky...I had no desire but to be off that train. A *****ian lady next to me signaled to me to keep my backpack close to me (it was on the ground in between my feet)...so to make matt**s worse, I had to sit with the backpack and my purse on my lap. To say the least, I counted the minutes and didn't sleep long** than maybe 10 minutes the whole ride. I was wearing sneak**s, jeans and had no luggage. This was horrible. I got off in ...

We were on the French Riviera for Easter in the town of Nice - it was a little chilly for the beach but we still spent a few hours there - we did some shopping, enjoyed some good food, and had a nice relaxing break after the "big city" environment of Paris & Barcelona!