The internet here can be a little spotty at times, so the blog posts are probably going to be rather sporadic, and I may just do a few at one time as well. Here is a bit about our adventures on Thursday (January 5).
We took a quaint little Mercedez-Benz bus to tour through Nice, Eze, and Monaco. Our CEA advisors came with us, as well as Cecilia, a French woman who knows an amazing amount of history and current information about the area.
NICE:
I think I could really get used to this view...
There was a man selling his paintings on canvas at the market here. They were beautiful oil paintings, and he found Julia to be beautiful, so he gave one of our friends quite the discount on a painting.
“You should thank Julia, I give you discount because she is so beautiful and will be my wife.”
An outdoor market is one of my favorite simple things. People giving their talents and personalities and passions in many different forms. I love it.
EZE:
A hilltop village where I could live, or at least live close to so that I could visit often to write in the sun-kissed alleys. I hope to go back perhaps a couple times and hike around the area. It has quite the view.
MONACO:
The center of gambling and extravagantly dressed people. The amount of money circulating in this town is unimaginable, and everything is sparkly clean and shiny to prove it. It was a beautiful country/principality with quite the interesting history and governmental set-up. If you don't know much about it, take some time to read about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco
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