It's nice in Nice! Yachts, Bentleys, and Trainers

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  Nice, Provence, France
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

I want to start by adding something that I forgot to write about on

the last blog. Our train to Nice was supposed to leave from Barcelona

at 845 and so we planned to get up early and walk down there. Well, we

over slept and ran about a mile to the station. We got on the train

with about 2 minutes to spare.

Now we are on a train again. It's about 6pm here and we are heading to

Genoa, Italy right now where we will wait for a few hours and then

head to Rome. We'll get to Rome at about 6am on Thursday.

We had a lot of fun in Nice. I'll try to see if I can remember most of

it to write it down. Like Barcelona, Nice is on the Mediterranean Sea

so the weather and the views are beautiful. (The girls are not bad

either). We arrived in Nice and went to the internet cafe to get a

hostel. We ended up finding a place with a three bed private room with

its own bathroom. This was great and it was more like a hotel room

than a hostel but still cheap. We went to the hotel, got ready, and

walked down the street to the Pedestrian Street where all of the shops

and restaurants are. We ate and had some wine outside at a

Mediterranean restaurant and I had escargot for an appetizer. Then, we

went out after than to a place called Wayne's. It was in an area

called Old Town. There was a band and they played mostly American

music.

The second day in Nice we got up and went to a bakery and had some

pastries for breakfast. Then, we went to the train station and booked

the train that we are on now to Rome. This was a whole lot easier than

in Barcelona as mostly everyone we ran into spoke English. Next, we

decided to take a day trip to Monte Carlo, Monaco which is about a 20

min train ride. Monte Carlo was awesome. The whole city is basically

built on a cliff so there was a lot of walking up hills. What we

didn't know before we got there was that the are apparently having an

F1 Gran Prix there in a couple of days. Monte carlo isn't a big city

and the roads are really winding and narrow. But the cars actually

race through the city streets. There were grandstands set up

everywhere and fences and barricades on the sides of all the streets.

Monte Carlo also sits on the Mediterranean and there were a lot of

boats in the harbour that had come to see the race. There were tons of

Multi-Million dollar yachts in the harbor from many different

countries. There was also a lot of exotic cars driving around the city

during the day. We saw Bentleys, Ferraris, and Rolls Royces.

We walked all around the city and went to a couple of the casinos.

They weren't really as grand and big as we expected but it was still

cool. We got back on a train and got back to Nice at about 7. Then we

took a nap and went to dinner at another Mediterranean restaurant.

Then we went back to Wayne's where we had gone the night before. We

met some girls there from Ireland and they told us that we should have

definitely gone to Dublin on the trip. Oh well, I guess we will have

to come back another time. One thing about being here is you can meet

people from a lot of different countries in one night and most of them

will speak English.

This morning we got up and had some brunch. Then we walked around and

checked out the beaches. They are made of rocks instead of sand but

people were still laying out on the ground. Then, we hiked up a

mountain and took some pictures of the city.

Finally, we had some Gellato which is kind of like ice cream and then

picked up our bags and walked to the train station. Rome here we come.

Aaron