Nice is nice

So I'm thinking that my blogs are starting to get a little monotonous, so I'm going to try and mix it up a bit and hopefully  make it a more interesting read.

Where: Nice
When: Early September
Who: Charlie, Ashlei, Aussie couple who gave us some great tips for traveling in Turkey and many new backpacking friends
How: Train from Barcelona
Feelings (in order):
Day 1: Ridiculously hungover, tired, hungry.
Day 2-4: Refreshed, hungry, excited, optimistic, delighted, hungry, amused, entertained, hungry, full, sleepy. Repeat.
Activities: Explored Old Town, Contemporary Art Gallery where we saw some amazing sculptures by Yves Klein and other amazing artists, day trip to Cannes and Monaco (>See also Monaco below), Waynes Bar
Beverages: Water, cheap-ass beer, even cheaper white wine, free red wine from some locals
Foods: Baguettes, Croissants, Toast with Nutella and Jam, Macarons *, Gelati **, Homemade pasta, Camembert, Soca (traditional Nice food- savoury buckwheat crepe with salad and tuna), Mussels***
Likes: Friendly people, beautiful buildings, wonderful sun shining everyday, romantic language
Dislikes: Pebbles on the beach, Nightlife ends around 1:30am


* Flavours: Chocolate, Hazelnut, Nutella, Coffee, Rasberry and Passionfruit & Basil
** Flavours: Speculose ( like gingersnap biscuits from Belgium), Passionfruit, Coffee, Chocolate biscuit.
*** Charlie got food poisoning from them 2 years ago, this was her first attempt to eat them since then. after 4 or 5 she couldn't eat any more so our German friend, Erik, who already had Mussels for his entre, offered to eat her main of Mussels as well and gave her his main of Soca. Such a gentleman.

>Where: Monaco
When: One day during our stay in Nice
How: Awesome scenic bus drive through hills and along the sunshine coast
Feelings: Excitement
Sight seeing: Princes Palace where Grace Kelly lived, Monte Carlo Casino which is larger than life!

Where: Marseille
When: Mid September
How: Train
Activities: Bumped into friends we met in Barcelona a week beforehand, Day trip to Aix en Provence where we saw live music in the streets, window shopped and saw some amazing clothes and shoes that I had to fight really hard not to buy! Ventured to the beach which ended up being the biggest adventure yet! Had to scale down the side of a mountain, in our thongs, in the sweltering heat, only to reach the bottom and find a beach of pebbles and ice cold water. We stayed for about half an hour, but we were worried that we wouldn't be able to scale back up the mountainside before dark and I was certain we would be spending the night in the woods with the mountain lions and goats. So we started our journey back up, enjoyed the wonderful view of white cliffs which meet the ocean, and made it up in record time.
Learnt how to play checkers and absolutely owned at my first game, taught the rules of Circle of Death to foreigners, played and won numerous times at Connect four and Jenga.
Who: Essendon supporter (HAH), Canadian from Edmington who has experienced weather of -40 degrees during the day in his home town, an American who is living in Marsielle and can do the best Family Guy impressions I have ever heard, English guy who studies at Oxford and was living in Japan at the time of the Earthquake- luckily had decided to cancel his trip to Tokyo a couple of days beforehand by chance, Swiss guy who is studying Photography in Nice, and a Sydney writer/ linguist who told me about WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms).

And here concludes our adventures in France. Definitely didn't stay long enough and am dying to come back next year to see more!