Hotel Marbella Nice

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.

... have an amazing view from Colline du Chateau. On saturday (November 28) we had sunshine and 19 degrees (end of November) and I was even swimming in the sea (15 gegrees), on sunday, November 29 we had rain and thunderstorms so that caused a delay of the plane of three hours. Best breakfast in town you find in "Les pains a tables" close to the market. Nice is a city IŽd love to visit once a year minimum.....

... 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 ...

... so we are hoping that our 9kg will suffice but I am not confident. We have been on the continent 5 weeks now and we are still on the first bottle but it is near impossible to guess how much is left. My best guess is that there is a 1/4 left (give or take a 1/4) Electric Boogaloo ... Keeping the lights on We have 2 batteries, one for the car to start and one for leisure. When the Car battery is full then the leisure battery is recharged. We can also hook up to Mains ...

... other spots in Europe, here we didn't need to wear our polar fleeces...) we decided to extend our stay to include the weekend and spoilt ourselves with a stay in a 4 star hotel right near the beach! Its our first splash out since we started and would you believe it was almost in budget!!! Guess the off-season thing really applies here. Its a bit sad that we haven't come here in summer as its a bit chilly still, particularly when the sea breeze comes up. We've been very jealous of the 30 ...

... of me.

Despite that, I did wake up rather refreshed by the time the train arrived in Nice at around 9 A.M. – especially because I was now looking out the window at the Mediterranean. The weather forecast was about 77 degrees and sunny for the weekend, and Nice did not disappoint. When we disembarked from the train, we realized that we were missing 3 out of the 12 members of our group. After calling them, we discovered that they had ...

... Ellen and Leonard set about making a feast for dinner from produce grown in the garden. Upon Melinda returning home we devoured all on offer, bar Ellen's mountain of cous cous, which as you would expect tasted delicious. We got to bed in good time ready for a hopefully more achievable mountain to defeat early the next day.

Mont Ventoux – see Thursday 4th June.


It rained, eventually it was bound to happen and indeed it did. Gently at first ...

... car sick.Nice itself was our first experience of the French Riviera. One of the things which stands out is the complete southern orientation of the Nice basin (the town is surrounded by hills) and the bay itself; which as a result is bathed in sunlight from dusk to dawn. Although, after seeing what they call a beach - I can understand why the French started exploring and colonising places such as Morocco, and why they ...

... without a ticket...). 10:45 AM, I got off the train in Nice Ville and called Aunty Nicks to tell h** wh**e I was. Thank God! I was safe. When I saw h**, so much emotion came ov** me...I was with h**...and all was going to be okay now, with or without my luggage. She took me to the cent** of the old city and we enjoyed some pizza (which was wond**ful, by the way) at a restaurant. Aft** that, we headed to the airport to find out about the ...

... night of dancing we noticed that the bartender was cleaning up alot. It was only midnight they couldn't be closing already. Clubs in France open late and go well into dawn. Well it turns out that Before is called that for a reason it's only open BEFORE the clubs open. Not to thrilled about that we went out to find another club. Some of the ones we found were either too expensive(The Klub) or wouldn't let us in(PINK). Never been denied entry before at a club but ...