Nice beaches

Travel day today. We slept in a little, packed, and checked out of our hotel. We hopped on the Paris Metro for the last time (this visit) and made it to Gare de Lyon to get our main line train down to Nice. The train that we wanted to catch at 1:50 was full so we had to wait for the 3:50 train. We sat in the terminal and rested. There was free wifi in the terminal so we got to check our emails and I posted those previous blogs. At 3:30 we started heading for our train when we found it was 3:40 and the conductor told us that even though the lady at the desk had validated our eurorail passports she had not given us a reservation ticket so we were going to have to pay 10 euros more each. We said no way and ran all the way back to the counter the girl was gone but someone else was helpful and got us our reservation ticket. Then we just started running with our backpacks trying to get back to our train before it left us. It was such a movie/tourist thing to do so we were all laughing as we were running. I think partly out of nerves that we would miss our train but it was fun none the less. We made it aboard and just after we took our seats the train started to roll out of the station.

Our seats face each other and have a table in between them so we are nicely situated. Of course next to us there are the French teens who like to listen to their French hip hop which makes me chuckle. The countryside we’re passing is beautiful and the train ride is pretty long so I should have plenty of time to enjoy it.

When we got off our train tonight we’ll be in Nice…the south of France. Unbelievable.

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We have finished our short glance of Nice France. We were only here for one day really because the second consisted of traveling out and that always takes more time than one expects. Nice was a little shadier than Paris but also has a way different feel. Paris has a magnitude that surrounds it because there is so much to see and every where you look there is something famous or someone…(cough) Ben Stein. The beaches and water of the French Riviera really were beautiful, not south pacific beautiful, but definitely beautiful. We went to the modern art museum in Nice as well, and there were some interesting exhibits.  It was strange to compare the art that we saw there to the art that we saw in the Louvre.  The different approaches to conveying messages and beauty.  There were some fun markets to explore whether it be fruit, food, flowers, or footwear. We had the most amazing lunch. Our table was back dropped by the local flower market and the calamari was delicious. We only had one day here so this is a little short, sorry.