St. Paul de Venice

St. Paul de Venice

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Greetings From the French Riviera!

Hi Everyone,

Victoria and I are in the French Riviera at the moment, staying in a town called Nice.  Apparently they barely ever receive rain here, maybeeee once or twice a month if that.  Luckily for us it has rained both days we've been here haha.  We did manage to squeeze in sometime without rain our first day and walked down to the water and a bit around an area known as 'Old Town.'  Yesterday it rained for almost the entire day but fortunately for us we jumped on an all day tour so we were still able to see numerous places.  I must admit in terms of a tour (Med-Tours) it was more along the lines of a chauffeur rather than a tour.  Our guide Pierre (yes that was his name) would literally drive us to a city, drop us off and tell us to explore for an hour or so.  We were hoping for a bit more information than that but we made due and managed to meander our way about to at least see what each place had to offer.  We were able to see Eze, Monaco, Monte Carlo, St. Paul de Venice, Antibes and Cannes.  Even I have to admit, without this tour I can't imagine we'd have seen all of that so we are grateful we had that opportunity.  We have one more day left here so we'll spend today exploring Nice a bit more.  We're heading to the local market to buy food for dinner (the fish here is amazing) and spend a bit more time walking through 'Old Town.'  Tomorrow morning we leave for a small French town known as Beaune (pronounced 'bone').  That will be our last stop before Switzerland!!

Write soon and check out the new pictures :)

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