Nice Is Nice!

Sunday, September 5, 2010
We got up early to take advantage of clean towels for our shower and to grab some breakfast before our 830 train. The shower was splendid and we headed down for breakfast. We had fresh croissants with brie cheese and an assortment of cheeses and fruit and cereals etc. I even had coffee which I have definitely been missing for awhile. We headed to the train station and tried to book our last trains...we are almost fully booked to the end of our trip, including hostels and transport. It is kind of sad but exciting that we don’t have to do anymore booking/ planning. Yeah!! Anyhow, they weren’t able to reserve our trains so we will have to do it another time. We made sure we got on the train early and didn’t want to mess it up today. We had a train to Milan and then had only a few minutes to switch to our train to Ventimiglia. From there we had to change to a Monaco train and in Monaco change to Nice. It was another long train day but we were excited to actually make it to Nice. We did too!! We got in by 6 and made it to our hostel. It was a villa hostel and is on the famous hostels list meaning it’s supposed to be the best. We arrived and were definitely not disappointed. It was really big and nice. We were in a 12 bed mixed dorm though so not so nice in the hot Mediterranean weather. Anyhow, we wanted to make the most of the day so we got changed and headed into town for dinner. The hostel offers a shuttle to the closest tram stop so we grabbed that and while we were waiting we met an Aussie girl named Laura who was travelling solo right now and she joined us on our mission for dinner and to see the town by night. We ate at this little place on a side street that had a great set menu and had the local specialty which is Nicoise salad. The food was really good and we had a good time with Laura, she was really sweet. We then walked through the village and found a market and headed to the beach. It was really neat all lit up at night. We walked around for awhile before retiring back to the hostel for the night. We headed to bed and were sleeping for awhile when our roommates came home late from the bar and were super loud and drunk. It was a bunch of Aussies and we ended up chatting with them a little at 530 in the morning when they got home. They were super nice and we had a few laughs before going back to bed now that the rest of our roommates really hated us all.