St Tropez, Nice, Eze & Monaco

After provence, we drove down to Nice via St Tropez. St Tropez was heaps smaller than i imagined, and the weather wasn't the greatest, but overall it was a pretty little town with heaps of money in it! We spent some time by the harbour, had a gelato, then cruised on to Nice.

Finding our accomodation in Nice turned in to a nightmare, due largely to one way streets, road works and general chaos. In the end, after two hours of circumnavigating the (rather small) city, we gave in and phoned the hostel who sent someone down to lead us back. Apparently they have someone rostered on this duty each day, so it must happen quite a bit! Our hostel was really great, and our room on the first night had a view over the city to the harbour - perfect :) We stayed in an old monastry that had been converted and it was a really social and lively place, and with free internet so we were pretty happy. In Nice we checked out a cool park on top of a hill that overlooks the old town, the modern art museum, the old town itself and the waterfront. All in all it was a really good place to hang out for a few nights and relax in preparation for my conference!

On our way out of Nice we visited Eze, a really tiny hill top medieval town with views to Nice and beyond. We dropped in quickly here before taking off to Monaco. Monaco would have to have been the cleanest place we've seen so far. It is quite small, and is perched on a steep hillside which winds it way down steeply to the harbour (we made good use of the bus system needless to say!). If you know your XBOX and playstation games you'll immediately recognise the streets in Monaco as streets used in formula 1 racing. We visited a really cool aquarium here, plus the old town/palace grounds as well as plenty of lush parks. After Monaco we headed for Reggio Emilia, Italy......