Arles to Nice

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Early start...still dark....jackets n scarves...

Around the corner to the free bus....onto the train station through the police security bag check...'do you have knives?'.... Met a kiwi couple and had a chat for 10 mins before we were off to platform 2 for the 8.25.

An hour trip to Marsielle St Charles Gare and had 5mins exactly to get to our train on another platform...just...
A 2 3/4 hr trip through the lovely Cote d'Azur ....Toulon, Frejus, san Raphael, Cannes, Antibes..
Arrived to Nice Gare and across the street to the Ligne Office to purchase our public transport tickets (10 trips for 10€). Onto Rue Jean Medecine to catch the next tram up to 4th stop Gorbella...1 min walk to our apartment on Rue Paul Bounin. 1/4 to 1 we met our substitute host...melvins sister... We have adopted using google translate to make sure we understand each other. Very helpful today as our language was useless. We learned she does makeup for some important people namely for acting. She enjoyed telling us she did Kate Blanchett's make up three times....and said she is a really lovely person.
We had a few laughs getting our messages across both ways.

Carrefore supermarket just around the corner.....stocked up and settled in.

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