We are there Chateau De La Chevra D Or, a beauty. A very well kept castle at the top of the mountain. It's small walk ways are pristine and the shops and restaurants built within the castle are small but busy. We walk through looking to reach the top so we can see the panoramic views of the coastline. It's like a maze but we find a way to the top and we paid the 6€ to see the well maintained cactus garden, walkways and an unbelievable view. I stopped at the edge and just admire everything below me. All the beauty surrounding me and all the other people around me. We sit up there for about 15-20 minutes. I take pictures of lovers kissing, girls taking selfies, and little kids playing. It was definitely worth the hike.
We are thinking to maybe get something to eat or drink but we don't we head back down the mountain. We are walking down for about 20 minutes and we start hearing a bagpipe, we look at each other and wonder where it's coming from. Echoing through the mountain tops, weak stumble upon a man and his wife. He's Italian I believe and she's taking pictures of him playing the bagpipe. We stopped for a couple minutes admire his talent take a video and continue walking. We finally reached the bottom in the quarter of the time that it took us to get up there. We sit by the train and wait for the next one, it's about a 20 minute wait. But we're not in a hurry except for the fact that we're starving. However the Italian made us dinner pasta with tuna and a salad. So we know that's waiting for us when we get home.
We get on the train and we get back to the apartment. I prepared the dinner and set the table while Anna showers. I'm so hungry I'm just going to wait to eat and then shower the food was good.
After I shower I go online searching for a train at its cheapest price to Paris. Everything is pretty expensive so I'm starting to get anxious. I continue to look and find a train that leaves at 7 in the morning which is one hour before Anna. I booked it though and since she already has a place we had planned to stay there together.
Now that the jobs are done we head out to her last night in Nice. It's a holiday so everybody's swarms the streets. The DJ's and bands are setting up and we walk up and down the strip just admiring everything. My favorite part is that we are by the sea, that's always my favorite part. The fireworks start at 9:30 p.m. so we sit down at a Cafe Bar next to the water. We have a couple beers and watch the firework show which is amazing. I also I'm watching all the people very interesting to see so many different people walking around on their holiday trips, speaking many different languages and I was trying to blend in.
After the fireworks show we get up and we start going towards the DJ and dancing in the street that was a lot of fun. Because it's so crowded we will walk down one of the little narrow streets and find the in old rustic bar in order to Jack Daniels on the rocks. The Italian is working so we're waiting for him to get off to see what we'll do but in the meantime we continue to drink talk and have fun. It's about 11 p.m. and we head to the West End Hotel where the Italian works. He brings us two glasses of wine and asked us how our day was, how the food was, and but we saw. He also begins to tell me what we will do tomorrow. Event let him know that I will be leaving in the morning with Anna tomorrow. He's not very happy, he's upset, and starts repeating I'm very very sad. It will not change your life, just stay just stay. But I want to leave. It's almost uncomfortable at this point. So we wait for him to finish and stay for another 45 minutes drinking and talking. And then I go by the street to wait for the Italians get off of work and a French man passes by and say something to me in French. I look at a non say I'm not sure what he said but it sounded good. We begin to laugh and the French man stands on the side of the road waiting for me to come over. I turn around and look at Anna to ignore him but he's still standing there waving putting his hands in the air it was quite funny. We begin to walk away and I looked behind me and he's throwing his hands in the air and we are both laughing.
Anna and I have formed a friendship being today all day together and tomorrow we will meet up in Paris. We have a good time together the more we drink the more we talk. We head back to the Italians with sandwiches two bottles of wine. And he's trying to convince me to stay still at this point, I just want to take my bag and go to the train station. It's about 3 a.m., I lay down for a couple hours and 6:15a.m. comes pretty quickly. I'm completely ready to go. I jump u do all the necessary things to get ready throw on my backpack and head out the door. But of course the Italian follows me and brings me the train station make sure I get on the train safely. I can't wait until I'm on the train. He asks me to promise I'll come back and all that sort of stuff. I say goodbye and go find my seat on the train.
I love being on the train you get to see so many different cities and the outlay from the window. Also it was really nice because half way there it was by the sea. I stay up for a while but eventually fall asleep, really cold on the train my feet are freezing. When I wake up there's about an hour to go and I just sit looking out the window. Big difference from Nice it's cloudy and it looks kind of chilly.
I finally arrived to the station in Paris and get off the train. I will still need to wait for Anna its about a 45 minute wait. So I grabbed a Starbucks coffee and search the web for a little bit in the station. Its very very very busy station. I have to use the washroom and again I'm on the search for the W.C., I finally find one and there's a big long line and I have to pay ,80€...it's so crazy to me. At this point Anna is arriving and I go and meet her.