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Woke up 3 in the morning to head to Luton airport via the First Capital Connect to Luton, then a bus to get to the airport. I know there are horror stories associated with EasyJet, but for our trip, it has been easy. Simply passed out on the plane for 2 hours, and woke up in Nice Airport. Checked in at Hotel Meyerbeer, and the name is definitely misleading as it is a hostel. But for €15 a night, who can complain right?
Went to the main sites at Nice.. Le Chateau, Vuiex Nice, and had the most awesome cream of mushroom sauce on my veal. Nice is so beautiful! Especially Vuiex (Old) Nice. The streets are really cute and has it's own flavor. My friend was mostly excited about the palm trees.
Took a 30 minute bus at ended up in Monaco, which is a small city, but it's own separate jurisdiction while surrounded by France. Knew nothing about it before I got there, just that it's a place where rich people live and have offshore assets and businesses. Did all the touristy stuff there, went to the panorama, the castle, and saw where all the rich people lived. There was this giant picture frame thing, and we had wayy too much fun taking pictures inside the frame. Monaco seemed like they had way too much money and didn't know what to do with it. For example, a simple museum looked grander than the Buckingham palace! We also saw the Prince of Monaco! It was funny, because the police stopped us from crossing the street, and 2 police motorcycle came down the hill, followed by a Mercedes. Knew it was someone important so I looked inside, and saw a guy that I recognize from the post cards. Turned out to be the Prince of Monaco. Pretty sure he smiled at us too.
Headed back to Nice, since that's where our hostel is. Went out for dinner, went back to our hostel. Met this one guy from Hawaii who was really cute, and he had a friend as well. I think he wanted to hang out with us, but didn't explicitly say so we went to hookah. There were a good amount of Lebanese and Middle Eastern people in Nice... I guess so hence the hookah place. It definitely wasn't a touristy place, as I guess tourists aren't too keen on hookah except New Yorkers from Astoria.
Next morning, headed to Cannes (which I had no idea was pronounced "k-Ah-n" until I told my boss I was going to "cannes" and hes like yeah definitely check out "kahn"). Found out the bus takes 2 hours, and almost decided not to go, but ended up going. The bus was so frustratingly slow! It was a local bus, stops every 100 meters, but it went long distance. When we finally got there, we stopped complaining. Cannes is so beautiful! The beach was beautiful, and the place was beautiful! The celebrities go for the Cannes Film Festival, but it wasn't going on when we went. Went on the panorama, obviously.. lol. Also headed beach, which was beautiful Mediterranean water. The water was so cold, and I was afraid to fully immerse myself in the water. The food was also really awesome and of course we got crepes and gelato.
Went back to Nice via the train that took only 30 minutes instead of the 2 hours on the bus. Headed to the airport and returned to London via EasyJet. Couldn't believe we spent 2 days in 3 cities.
Overall the Cote D'Azur is definitely a really great vacation spot. Really satisfied with the trip. The beach wasn't as awesome as the Caribbean, but the towns were so lovely. The food was 10x better than the food in London. People there are all so nice! They mostly speak English, although I did end up saying "Bonjour" and "Merci" out of respect to the country and language. I don't understand where people get the stereotype that French people are mean and arrogant. They were actually really nice! I also realized on the trip that British tourists are the most obnoxious people ever! They are way louder than the American tourists, and they expect everyone to speak English. Don't understand why Americans have such a bad rep as well.
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That was an awesome trip for sure!! We had a great time.
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