Nice 11/7

Marseille to Nice – Aux En Provence day trip then to Nice 11/7 12bed dorm - Villa Saint Exupery

Tagged along with Dani to see some big flower plantations north of Marseille, we found the tourism centre and were informed that they were a good hours drive away. Hiring a car was too expensive, so we opted to just walk around town. There was a market on, selling mostly female clothing.
We returned to Marseille and had lunch in Vieux Port, which was pretty amazing.

Arrived in Nice later in the day, and stayed at a very nice hostel Villa Saint Exupery Beach. Immediately knew I’d like Nice, so we decided to stay a few days. After a late dinner and drinks we got back to the hostel and I solo missioned it on a pub crawl.

Nice 12/7 4bed annex - Hotel Belle Meusiere

Checked out of the nice hostel as there wasn't any rooms left, and had a quick gym session, very minimal, but worked up a sweat. Spent most of the day on Nice beach after the fruit market, then booked the new hostel for a few nights.

When we arrived the hostel had double booked, so Dani stayed in another hostel, I had to cram into a shitty annex like room on the side of the hostel. I showered then went out and met some cool Swedes in the courtyard of the hostel. Made myself a ham cheese and baby spinach baguette, which was amazing, and I also bought two bottles of red that we all got into. 

Amongst all the drinking Luke introduced himself and we wandered off looking for a pub crawl, we found one and talked the party bus guy down from 30euro to 15.

The party bus took us into Monaco, to party it up there, which we did… shortly after arriving at the first bar, already on my way, we grew impatient with the bars poor service, so I swiped a fancy looking bottle of champagne and shared it around. 

30minutes later the empty bottle was found by bar staff and they went around sniffing and inspecting peoples drinks, funnily enough after some heated discussions with bar staff I weaselled my way out of paying the 90euro for the bottle, but was forced outside, and finished off my other drinks outside.
We went to another club, and I danced my arse off. Caught the bus back, what a night.

Nice 13/7 4bed loft - Hotel Belle Meusiere

Dani, Luke and I took the train to another beach along the coast 20minutes away, Villefranche Sur Mer. We met an Estonian girl who lives in Talinn, we exchanged details for when I go to Talinn.
We had lunch then returned to our hostel and freshened up.

Took the train back to Monaco and saw the ridiculous amounts of money that been spent on yachts, boats and cars. Had dinner at the beer garden where I had danced the night before. We missed the train back to Nice and had to wait an hour for the next one at 1130. I decided to have a night off and went to bed.

Nice 14/7 4bed loft - Hotel Belle Meusiere

Went to the big rocky beach again, but this time we bought some li-lo’s and had an awesome day floating around on them and sunbaking until 4pm when Luke saw Gilda, the chick he had hooked up with at Calvi on the Rocks festival.
We had dinner for Bastille day at an Irish pub then returned to the hostel where the hostel worker Robert, an awesome German guy, came through with his promises of booze, pizza, and a few joints.
I drank almost 2 bottles of red to myself and a few shots of the Czech spirit, then ran down to see the firework show on the beach. I stumbled back drunk by myself to the hostel after the fireworks.