Nice, not so surprisingly, is rather nice. Spectacular even.. And there's sun!! The first day we got here, after a mammoth train ride, that didn't take us to Italy as we'd originally planned, we had to make our way to the hostel. Unfortunately, this included us walking several kilometres up a very large hill! Not. Happy. Jan. Especially when we got to the hostel and were informed that they have a courtesy bus that could have picked us up. Grrrrr! Not only did we walk up the hill with our twenty plus kilo (ALAS, they have grown!) packs, we also walked a kilometre in the wrong direction. Uphill of course, and in the boiling heat - well, hot compared to elswhere we've been. Happily, we were given breakfast upon arrival, thus marking the start of a
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