Small dresses and small dogs

Ohhh Nice.

We love it here.

It's nice to be back by the beach, as apart from Estonia (where it was far too cold to swim) we haven't seen one since Vietnam. But the price differences between Vietnam and France are amazing - there can't be that many places in the world where you can get away with charging around $45 AUD just for a beach chair and an umbrella, compared to the $1 we were paying in Vietnam!



Nice is packed full of tourists, but many of them are French - so we still get to listen to French accents which we love hearing!

The fashionable accessories here seem to be:
- a tan
- a small dress (not necessarily just for women... cross-dressing is also very popular here)
- and, an even smaller dog (women walk them on leads, men carry them like babies in their arms)

We arrived without any of the above, but have been working hard on the tan, and Gwil bought a small dress... which was for Em, not for himself!



Today we went rollerblading to check out the full length of the beach. At the very south end of Nice we found some elderly guys playing Patonque - which was a great French cliché that we'd been looking out for!



Tomorrow, we're going to get the train to Monaco before heading to Castellane on Monday... the Monte Carlo casino has a very strict dress code though, and without heels, suit jackets and ties in our backpacks, we don't think we'll be allowed in!