11 July 2007

Our last full day in Europe
It was another wonderfully clear and warm day. We drove to Nice to check out the beach scene and it was a mad house. It was stop and go traffic for miles. We passed up the beach and drove north away from the water a bit on a road that overlooked the ocean. We headed back toward Nice to try and find a beach in one of the smaller villages. We only saw one and it was private, so we went back to Nice, parked in a parking lot and walked. We were surprised that the beach wasn't a sand beach but covered in stones - not very comfortable on the feet, but it was crowded. We swam twice in the Mediteranean which was colder than we expected, but the water in the beach area was an incredible light blue.
We went back to the house and waited and waited for Franck to get home from work. Finally at about 9:30 one of his roommates told us that Franck called him and said he had a bicycle accident. He had to go to the hospital for stitches to his forehead. His roommate made us dinner and we enjoyed the dessert that we bought to share. We finished up our last minute packing and didn't get to bed until after 11:00.