Friday, June 24, 2011

Nice

23 June
I am sitting on an Airbus A321 enroute from Vienna to Frankfurt. 5 minutes in the Vienna airport and I was already struggling to switch from french back to german/austrian (they sound the same people). We left Aix at about 10 am and didn't make it to Nice until about 2 pm even though it was supposed to be a two hour drive.
 Why you ask? Well, first of all, instead of taking the autoroute straight there, we took a little detour. A friend of Dad's that works in Aix told us to take this road that runs right along the Mediterranean and has amazing  views. The road was absolutely beautiful. It started at a town called Cassis and ended in Toulon (?). The road itself is only 10km long but it took us almost an hour to drive because we kept stopping to look and take pictures.

This road is awesome. It is essentially a mountain on the coast of the Mediterranean that has a bunch of hiking trails and awesome views. The cliffs also have bolts in them for climbing routes. I would love to come back and explore that place some more. We arrived in Toulon, where we were supposed to get on the autoroute again, and got lost. Then we had problems at a tollbooth. Then we got lost trying to find our hotel in Nice. I know, quite the adventure.

The rest of the day in Nice was spent finding lunch, then laying on the beach until about 6 pm. We came back, showered, then headed into old town for dinner (about a 30 min walk). This morning, I got up early and went and sat down on the beach and read my book since it was only a five minute walk from our hotel. We checked out and headed to the airport, which leads us to where I am now.
We have just started our descent into Frankfurt, where we will get a car and drive to Hiedleburg tonight. Hopefully I will get decent internet there so I can post the last three posts. Can you belive we only have 3 days, then it's Tuesday and we're flying home?!

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