NIce

Hi all,
I'm now in Nice, it is sooo warm here and the beaches are rocky not sandy.... it is weird.
I met up with Robert after a terrible overnight train ride to Lauterbrunen in Switzerland. Actually the train ride was ok it was just the lack of sleep caused by changing trains four times and you know how I get when I'm over-tired.
The next day I went hiking in the Swiss Alps while Rob was in anuther town. It was the best view and scenery I have seen during all of my trip - snow covered Alps, lush green fields..... amazing!!! Check out the Flickr account - I have put some photos up.
But hiking I got sooo burnt and now can't go out in the sun. Ok it's not that bad but it wasn't fun.
Hiking in the Alps was soooooo amazing! So so beautiful. I can't wait to go back. As you walk along you can hear cow bells and then when you turn a corner you find a couple of cows just hanging out munching on grass and making music with their cow bells. By the end of the day of walking I was very tired . I had managed to walk from 10am until 6pm mostly non stop. Because Rob was in another town that was up on the ridge and I was in the valley I walked to meet him and then we had to walk all the way down the valley with his big pack. It is such a strange place for people to live and how on earth did they get up there before they had cable cars??? Well I guess the same way we walked down... but what on earth would make you want to build your house all the way up on the side of a cliff??

Now I'm back in France. It is nice in Nice but the weather means that we have to take everything easy have long lunches in the shade and really not do a whole lot because it is so hot. Nice is ok but we hope to head out of the city tomorrow and maybe go to Antibes or Cannes for a day. We also want to go to Monaco for an afternoon just for a laugh. It is actually quite ridiculous how the wealthy live - in order to apply for a building grant in Monaco they have to pay a couple of grand and that's just a processing fee. They each have two boats because their big ones can't fit into the harbor so they have to be moored out in the sea while another 'smaller' boat brings them to shore. How silly.

The water here is so blue and clear. It was such fun to swim in the Mediterranean Sea!! The water is warm and lovely.

Well I had better go and make some really late dinner.
I love you all.
Love Acushla