Nice - Marseille

 Left Beaulieu yesterday (Tuesday) and Ubered into Nice, and dropped off at the old town. Our driver was a real hoot and gave us French lessons all the way into Nice … merci beaucoup!!

 Beaulieu apartment in the background (on hill) … you can appreciate why I referred to the climb back each day!

                 Nice - lots of cool narrow laneways.

Then time for coffee. Coffees vary in price, depending largely on location, anywhere from €2 - €4. 

Really liked Nice and especially the old town. Next time we would spend a few nights here exploring properly. 

Then we decided to use our legs and walk to Nice Ville Station for our train to Marseille at 1.25pm.

Once at the station Olivia left us as she was flying back to London at 6.30pm. That is when the fun started!

First we were delayed by 30 min then extended to 60 min. Finally got on train a bit after 2pm then sat stationary for 2 hours!! There was an incident on another line and we waited for delayed trains to arrive. We finally pulled out of the station around 4.15pm then spent another hour stationary at Cannes due to an engine breakdown somewhere on our line!! Oh well, we can say we have been to Cannes, even if it was just sitting stationary at the station. 🤣

Long story short … finally arrived at Marseille around 8.45pm, 4 hours late. To save time we jumped in a cab to the hotel in order not to waste anymore time. 

Left the hotel to grab something to eat. First impressions were quite intimidating as it was dark, we didn’t know where we were going, it was grubby and there were lots of males around. Finally settled on burgers and fries and off to bed. Looking forward to exploring in the daylight!