Relaxing beach day in Nice...

We slept late, had a slow breakfast and then meandered out way to the beach. We sat there for most of the day, claire swam, I sunned myself had a we nap, took some photos....then we wondered up and found somewhere to have lunch and had a delicious seafood salad each. WE MISS ITALIAN COFFEE! They still have lovely pastries here but their coffee is sharp and a bit bitter comparison to the delightful coffee we've been indulging in for the past week of our travels.

We went back to the beach for a wee while in the afternoon and just enjoyed the salty sea breeze in the still quite warm 4pm sun.

We adventured out does the to a local chain restaurant called Hippopotamus for dinner, and just to spite the rude and ignorant American voile beside us we iced to speak as much French as we could muster to the poor waitress. Dinner was ok but reasonably priced so we didn't mind.

After a couple of weeks with very little social contact (and by this I mean going out or drinking) with anyone but ourselves (it sounds a bit boring right, nope , we are quite enjoying our quiet time and each others company) anyway tonight we socialised at the hostel over a bottle of wine with some lovely fellow travellers on the hostels outdoor terrace. The seemed to be LOADS of Aussies about, one American and one Kiwi. They were all solo travellers too, escaping the cold winter weather down south right now. We stayed up past 1am and then called it a night when the drinking games started. Haha however it as a very pleasant evening with a lot of laughter.

F xx

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