Nice

It has been a couple of days! We arrived in Nice four days ago (I think) and have enjoyed our hostel thoroughly. One of our favourites so far! We are staying in Villa Saint Exupery just on the outside of Nice. The hostel runs a nine passenger van back and forth from the tram stop every fifteen minutes in the morning and at night, which makes it really accessible and easy to get transport into the city!

When we arrived they had just become fully booked but luckily they are prepared for that situation and have eight bunks set up in the basement of the hostel. So we slept in the 'dungeon' our first night which wasn't all bad, but we're now sleeping in a dorm with other ladies. The Villa Saint is rated the top hostel in France, and its certainly making that impression on us so far! The front desk has information about the city and tours, and they have day trips that you can take. There are options of sailing, scuba diving, canyoning, rock climbing and french lessons, among other things. We were really hoping to go canyoning but since its still a bit of a low season and the water is still freezing, not many people had signed up so we didnt get the chance. Bummer! We did however spend and afternoon up in Eze and in Monaco, and this afternoon we took the bus to Cannes and just sat on the beach for while. Where unfortunately Jenna got sand in my camera lense. We are going camera shopping tomorrow. BAH. But its our only large misfortune so far which I am thankful for!

We have spent every evening in our hostel being up until two or four am, just mingling with other travellers and we have met some really great people! We love it here but unfortunately its our last night tonight and then we are going to be leaving for Barcelona tomorrow.

We have read up/heard about the Swine Flu and are all caught up now (not having been paying attention to news in the world right now really). Its made its way into Austria, Germany and England too - so our travels to Spain aren't going to be delayed. We are just going to follow through with our plan and hope that we dont catch it!

Hope all is well at home, my apologies for the short post and lack of posts lately! I guess we have just been making too many friends! WEIRD.

Hope the snow melts soon!
Love, Ash