the kindess of strangers...
Well I'm back in the UK... Southern France was great - it was really nice to do the beach thing for a bit... - I really liked Cannes and the boat trip I had there to Margherite Island... Lyon was pretty good too... I got there about 9pm (so nice and dark) and had a bit of trouble finding my way the tube station to get to the backpackers - esp since I didn't have change to get a ticket so this nice young french couple who didn't speak much english let me skip through the barrier when they used their ticket and wrote out directions (the changes i had to make) to get to the right stop - was very nice of them... - and cos they were so nice I didn't give them a disgusted look as they did their canoodling while waiting for the train (altho they had little breaks and tried out a bit of their english in between - like asking if i had seen a kanagroo etc :) )... then it turned out to be a bit of an endeavour to get from the tube stop to the backpackers - but there was a NZ couple going that way too so we joined forces and another french couple we met on the street walked us to the backpackers! - all very helpful!
Anyway Lyon was pretty... and I really liked Grenoble - went up in that cable car thing (like a big plastic bubble) to the fort on the top of the hill and spent a few hours wandering up there... and Chamonix was very pretty... went to the ice cave there (had to go in another plastic bubble - they are quite weird! - bit eeries being able to look at your feet and see the ground 100m below you!) and just walked around the town...
Now just sorting out plans for my next trip :)
Monaco piccies... (aquarium and harbour)... (travel buddy had a digital camera :) )
