A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush

Well I’ll start off by saying I’m definitely not disappointed with today…however things could have gone better. We arrived in Nice yesterday and today we set out for the beach. The hostel we’re staying at right now is a ways away from the coast so it takes a long time to get to anywhere where you can see the Mediterranean. We hear about a great beach a little ways from Nice at Cape d’Ail, so that’s where we headed first. It took forever to actually get into Nice to take the bus to the beach so we didn’t end up getting to Cape d’Ail until around 1 pm. And even once we got off the bus it took about 20 minutes to walk down the winding streets to the little cove where the beach, called Plaga Mala, was located. The area was very pretty but not as good as advertised by some others (it was still pretty awesome don’t get me wrong). We were there for probably 2 or 3 hours…then we saw a guy who had arrived at the hostel the same time as us yesterday and he told us we should go to Monaco because the beach there was awesome and so much better…so we went. Well Monaco was a little bit of a nightmare. The city is built for driving, not for walking…which I suppose is why their Grand Prix is such a big deal. It took forever to get to the beach, which is cool but no better than where we were before. We got back to Nice around 7:30 pm or so and were exhausted from all the run around…what we should’ve done, instead of hunting for beaches outside of Nice, is just stay put and be content. Nice is a very cool city and we wish we had more time here to take it all in. Tonight we grabbed a pizza from a take-away stand and headed to the beach where we ate our pizza on a bench. After that Erica got an ice cream cone and I had my last French crepe, this time cinnamon…which, by the way, was fantastic!

Crepes

I like crepes. I wish I could remember the name of the first place in France I tried a crepe. It was on the north side of Notre Dame towards the back. Erica and I split a sugar crepe; it was warm, sweet, and just the ticket. I don’t want to say that a simple creation of batter was the highlight of my day considering I toured the Notre Dame Chapel, walked around the Latin Quarter, the Pantheon (not the Pantheon) and went to the Luxemburg Palace…but perhaps it was. Notre dame was pretty awesome, the ornamentation and architecture on the inside was so intricate and the height that the cathedral spanned was pretty incredible…I can’t imagine how something like that was built so long ago. We made sandwiches with fresh baguettes we got this morning and had half of our lunch in front of Notre Dame and the rest of our lunch at Luxemburg Palace, which was very pretty. We ended up going back to the Eiffel Tower so we could see it during the day. It was still made of iron, still lots of people, still cool.