Nice is Nice...

but getting there wasn't so nice. The original plan was to head to Belgium for 4 days before we headed to the South of France - Arnold had promised me waffles and chocolate (well that's what how he got me hooked on the idea of heading there). But that all changed when we ran into issues with our visa's for India. Long story short - we had to hand over our passport to the India Embassy for a long period of time (or so they kept threatening us with) and stay in France. We were both pretty bummed out about having to axe the side trip to Belgium, but there could be worse places to be "stuck" in. And this is how we ended up going to Nice.

Because we were booking our train ticket to Nice in such short notice we had to take a bit of a milk run to get there - changing trains 4 or 5 times. Which I will tell you is a HUGE pain in the a**. I have never known trains to be late - from what I saw they were always on time, but somehow we managed to be on two different trains that were both late causing us to miss our next train - but after all that we arrived in Nice only 30minutes (okay maybe closer to an hour) later then planned. So not a big deal, just a pain to change trains all the time when you have as much gear as we do.

My disappointment over waffles and chocolate soon faded as I saw the beaches and the blue skies!! Aaah, Nice - you live up to your name and then some. Spending 4 days in the French Riviera was just what we needed and we were pretty happy to be "stuck" in France after getting down there.

Love Melissa and Arnold