Nice, France (September 25-27)

Our first stop in France was in Nice. It was nice. We enjoyed moules frites for the first time in the trip, discovered the wonders that are French sandwiches (Salami, butter, and cornichons on a half baguette? Why, Yes, please that sounds wonderful! And it is.), wandered around the big food and flower market, sampled Socca, and also took advantage of the large number of cheap, delicious Asian buffets in Nice. After a month straight of Italian food, we were ready for a change.

Most of all we spent our time relaxing on the beach with roughly 17 Euro worth of English reading material (1 Economist, 1 New Yorker, and a Soduku book) and playing with the camera.

We watched the sun set


had a bottle of wine and got all romantical


Played with the timer on the camera



The rocky beach made things interesting. It was hard, and tough to walk on, but they made a really cool sound when the waves splashed ashore and drew back there was a sound just like when you pour milk on rice krispies!


Every time we sat down we caught ourselves saying "Oof!" which in French sounds like . . . "Egg!" so this was our "Oeuf" rock.


We took about 40 pictures of us hanging out at the beach and had a great time. It was nice to get in some relaxation in the sun before heading to Paris for all the serious sight-seeing. Also, just as an aside, Nice should change their name to something else for the purpose of internet searching. Try looking up "Nice Restaurants" or "Nice Hotels" on Google. Sheesh.