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nice is Nice. Or is that the other way round? Blue sea, blue sky, delapidated chateaux and beaches made of pebbles, a la Brighton. Painful when transitioning to or from the water, but still "pretty".
The trip over involved me sleeping for 10 hours on a train from Bordeaux and tonight I am doing something similar: Nice-Marseilles-Lyon-Strasbourg on an overnight train, to arrive 07:58 local time in Strasbourg train station. The temperature is pretty good - just hot enough to be bearable if you're in the shade, but too much if you're in the sun. Got an email from Amsterdam finally answering my questions, so everything now seems to be back on track.
What else? Well, my basic impression of France is that all architecture seems to have come to a halt in 1850, cos there's a lot of very old, very delapidated houses that really could do with being knocked down & rebuilt, but apparently thats "because its charming". And so is being stuck in a long narrow windy street thats blocked because a van is unloading at the front of the traffic jam.
Carole says I'm a philestine, but I think its more "dislike of French architecture" myself. Oh well, off to much better organised towns tomorrow; Strasbourg is at least partially Germanic, and thus will have been redecorated since... ohh... 1945?
Got to get gowing, there appears to be an angry mob of Europeans outside!
S
The trip over involved me sleeping for 10 hours on a train from Bordeaux and tonight I am doing something similar: Nice-Marseilles-Lyon-Strasbourg on an overnight train, to arrive 07:58 local time in Strasbourg train station. The temperature is pretty good - just hot enough to be bearable if you're in the shade, but too much if you're in the sun. Got an email from Amsterdam finally answering my questions, so everything now seems to be back on track.
What else? Well, my basic impression of France is that all architecture seems to have come to a halt in 1850, cos there's a lot of very old, very delapidated houses that really could do with being knocked down & rebuilt, but apparently thats "because its charming". And so is being stuck in a long narrow windy street thats blocked because a van is unloading at the front of the traffic jam.
Carole says I'm a philestine, but I think its more "dislike of French architecture" myself. Oh well, off to much better organised towns tomorrow; Strasbourg is at least partially Germanic, and thus will have been redecorated since... ohh... 1945?
Got to get gowing, there appears to be an angry mob of Europeans outside!
S
