Travelling to Côte D'Azur - Nice!

Tan: Poor Richard was still so sick in the morning, to a point where he couldn't go to breakfast with me. I went down and even brought 'little sicky' back some fruit, but he couldn't even look at it! Luckily I've got some muscles, because I carried both full big backpacks (at the same time of course like a hero) down to the bus. I got a really strange look from an Indian man as Richard walked out of the lift with a small day pack and I walked out like a common pack mule! Hahahaha! Another story to tell.

Rich: It's good when you have hired help! I was sick ... like a boss!

So we headed down to the bus for an early 7:30am start. The American couple now have some good-will to earn back, as they were 30 minutes late!!! They did get a bit of a 'word'
from Luke the tour director and also a general mention about lateness on the mic! Good work Cool Hand Luke!

It was a big drive to Nice today, but given the European Union rules for drivers, we had to stop every couple of hours. This was actually a really great way to break it up and then it wasn't so bad.

We arrived in Nice about about 4:30 and had enough time to get up to our room for a rest and organise ourselves for dinner. The whole group had a dinner tonight at a local French restaurant in Old Town. This was really really nice, but we all had the set menu - salad nesoir, beef borginogn and profiteroles.

After dinner most people headed out for a drink at a place called 'Wayne's Bar'. This was a great pub and was apparently an expat bar, which was cool! There was a brilliant solo guitarist who of course belted out Land Down Under for us. He played some awesome music and really pumped up the crowd.

Tan: Richard was 80% back at this point and managed to get a couple of small beers down. I was speaking to a couple of the guys on our tour group and I discovered that one of the boys lives in Benalla and is the son of Johnny Martinello!! Funny! He actually plays for the All Blacks and is coached by Wappa!!!!! So after we got back to the hotel, it was a must to post the picture of us on Facebook on Wap's wall!

We decided to walk back with a couple of the others, just to get a bit of extra sleep. We knew we had to get up early as was definitely washing time in the morning, or reuse our undies! Eeewwww! No thanks!