I Love Nice, France

Sorry I have been so slack with the blog lately, I have been flat out having the time of my life in Nice, France. This is probably one of my favourite places in the world, and I recommend everyone to visit it if given a chance. There isn’t an awful lot to see there, but its just been great to be in a place where I can unwind and just relax for a bit. Being right on the beach, it was awesome to be able to go to the beach most days, the weather was perfect every day that I was there. Its proximity to Monaco & Cannes make for excellent day trips, although I didn’t get the chance to travel to Cannes, we did visit Monaco, which was beautiful. I will talk about it in the next blog.

Most nights were spent down in the hostel’s common room where most of the guests would hang out and socialize. I think this is one of the most important parts in running a good hostel. I will give the hostel a bit of a plug here too, we stayed at Saint Exupery’s Villa Hostel, it was the best place I have ever stayed in, the rooms are large, everything is clean, they have free wireless internet throughout the whole building, run day trips and tours around the city they have a great bar with 1 Euro beers and another thing which I found to be awesome, you can buy dinner there. Every night the chef comes down and whips up a meal, last night I had chicken breast and a risotto & the night before grilled salmon and tabouli. These were great changed from the canned tuna and tinned beans I had been eating for the rest of the trip. The meals were delicious and very cheap, seven Euros for a huge feed was irresistible, but over the past few days I have managed to live pretty cheap, which has been good. It’s pretty difficult to blow a lot of money when going to the beach and sightseeing around the city are free and the beers are only one Euro. But Nice won me over and we opted to stay there for a couple extra nights, I almost wish I was staying for another few, but Paris is calling, so I’d better get myself to the train station.