French Riviera

So I left London feeling like total crap thanks to my cold. (which now that I'm thinking about it makes sense, I did run around Amsterdam one day in the pouring rain in shorts and a tank top) London itself wasn't expensive, but getting in and out of london was the most I've spent on travel aside from my eurail pass. Even with my pass, to get to London the booking fee was at least 100 euros, and they limit the days and train times that eurail passes are good for. Getting out of London, If I wanted to use my pass to leave I would have had to wait another3 days and still pay like 70 euros which I didn't want to wait for, especially since I had booked a hostel in Nice, France already. Bleh. Honestly I just wanted to get out of there!

The train ride was a total of 9 hours down to Nice, and thanks to standby seats and babies I didn't sleep more than a combined 30 minutes. The funniest thing about the train ride though, was that my college french teacher was a couple rows behind me! It is such a small world! She was coming to Nice for a couple weeks to take some classes on teaching French, I guess to stay current. 

Nice has turned out to be exactly what the doctor ordered. I never thought id be so happy to be in a place where you sweat just sitting down in the shade. It's like a detox. My throat started feeling better right away and all my other symptoms disappeared, it was great! I went to the beach for my first full day here, and I posted pictures on Facebook. This place is BEAUTIFUL! I got a beach towel and just laid in the sun for an hour by the sea. Sidenote for anyone who has never been on vacation with me: I have a tendency to sit in the sun for hours on my first day of vacation trying to achieve the perfect dark tan. All that happens is I burn like a lobster and then I'm super grumpy and uncomfortable the rest of the vacation. It's practically tradition. You would be happy to know that I limited myself to an hour of sunbathing, which was perfect because I still ended up a little pink. (this polish skin doesn't understand sunshine) 

Later in the night I went out to dinner with a group of new friends, and then we grabbed a few bottles of wine and went down to the beach. We laid on the beach for a bit and then went in for a midnight swim. No big deal but it was so pretty out at night! On the way back to the hostel I walked past one of THE best conversations I have ever overheard. Ever. There were 3 American guys and 3 French girls. The American guys were just tell the girls what they were studying in school. They said they were computer science majors, and the girls literally started giggling and in flirty voices were like oh you guys are soooo smart that's soooo cool. If I didn't think the girls would have found it suspicious, I would have high fived those guys right there. I mean they weren't bad looking, but they weren't particularly attractive either. And they had girls giggling and flirting because of their computer science degrees. Hahahahaha

So the awesome thing about Nice is that I'm so close to other small beach towns. I can take a short train ride (like 30 min or less I think) to Cannes or Monaco, which is what I'm planning on doing the next couple of days. I don't know where I'm going after this, but I don't think it will be too far away from here!           

Ps: what day of the week is it? Nevermind, I don't even care!