Second France Stopover

Nice.  Nice was pretty nice.  It was nice to stay in Nice.  Okay, I'm done.  But though we weren't there long, we did enjoy ourselves.  True, it's a coastal town...nobody's perfect, but there were plenty of other things to do.  On our one full day, we took the bus up to Eze Village, and thence to Monaco/Monte Carlo.  Eze Village was quite charming, and we enjoyed walking around for a couple hours.  These are the exquisite crepes we sat down to enjoy, one with bananas, rum, and brown sugar, and the other with chestnuts, whipcream (or wipecream as their menus said), and hot chocolate sauce.  Mmmmm...
Here's Elizabeth looking adorable as always.
After our venture in Eze Village, we took a hike down the mountain to catch the bus to Monaco.  It was supposed to be a hike that poets and artists have taken for inspiration.  Well, here we're modeling the amazing scenery.  A fenced in construction zone...

...and a funky fire hydrant!!!!!  Okay, seriously, we did eventually break through the trees and see some lovely scenery of the coastline, but we were amused nonetheless.  Obviously.
These were two phone booths in Monaco.  Now bear in mind, that there are tons of people in every country in Europe we've been to so far who dress up as statues and stand there freaking people out and hoping for money.  But these are actually just statues.  Kinda cool.
Remember Elizabeth's obsession with blowing me up with cannons?  Well, unfortunately for me, she found more.  Here she is being smug...
...and here I am pleading for my life.  But since I'm sitting here typing this, I suppose I didn't come out too badly.  I also went hunting in gutters for stone disks...it's a long story.  Heh.  No, it's not a long story, I just like saying that (I think we've been through that).  It's just a thing from a computer game.  So I have an obsession with recreating stuffs from computer games.  Deal with it.  Anyway, aside from that, we walked around a little in Nice, saw the French Riviera for a second or two, and went back to our hostel.  This was a really fun hostel, where they made personal pizzas for you for pretty cheap.  Mine was chorizo, artichoke, and mushroom.  And cheese, of course.  Mmmm...

Okay, okay, yes we're in Italy right now, but it's hard to find time to blog.  So Italy should be coming up now, but I thought I'd post something on Nice while I had the chance, and before it got forgotten.  This being our second stopover in France (the first being when we flew in and took the train to Spain), I was excited to finally get away from the train stations a bit.  Once you get past that, the people are fairly pleasant.  One more time in France ahead of us...

Did ew know...?

Rule number 1: Get away from the train station.

Thank you for choosing Lod's Little Tidbits, and have a nice day.