In advance, we are sorry (but not really that sorry) that we are running a bit behind on updating our posts!! We have been exploring and enjoying ourselves away from the Internet and haven't really had much time to keep on top of this. Also when we do have time we are dog tired and would rather nap ;) and rightly so, no apologies there. Anyway (mostly to all parents) we are still doing ok and are now in Switzerland and finally back-blogging for the last few days. We have treated our stay in Nice as a relaxing time to catch our breaths a little. We've been pretty non stop with only two or three days (maximum) in each city. Lausanne in Switzerland marks our 13th city that we've visited and explored. As nice as it has been to dive in and explore these cities , walking tours, museums, art galleries, studying maps, catching metros and busses and trams, Nice has been a by nice city to just switch off in. Our hostel was quite central within walking distance between the train stat
We had another slow day here in Nice. Starting the day with a breakfast on the hostel terrace where we were joined by Denise, the resident turtle that likes to snap at poor unsuspecting feet. We then headed into to town with one of the girls that we'd been talking to last night; Jess from Queenstown, New Zealand. We had all decided they we'd go on the walking tour of Nice this morning and the three of us got some water and headed to the meeting point. This walking tour was significantly better than the tour we had done in Florence. This young local man as informative, quick to get to the point, and also covered some informative info about modern day Nice as well as the history of this city. For example, the pink house on the hill that we were about to go to thinking that it must have been the Matisee museum, that was also a big pink building on a hill, was in fact the mansion of the first Mr Bond himself, Sean Connery! We had a laugh about this thinking about how funny it wou