Nice

While backpacking, you learn to appreciate the small things like warm water, good shower fixtures, clean clothes, good conversation, and your native language. I spent this morning lying on the stone beach in Nice before it clouded over and started raining for most of the day. Given that there really wasn't much I wanted to see here, I decided to machine wash my clothing. I've hand washed my clothes twice since I got here, which saved me money, but line drying them is something of a problem because my clothes don't seem to dry overnight, leaving me to repack my backpack with wet clothing (ew... I know). Turns out, though, that doing your laundry over here is unbelievably expensive. What should be like one load of clothes cost me like 12 dollars (US). These tiny ass washers are absurd, and 50 eurocents gets you 8 minutes of drying. Why do these people pay that? What are you thinking Europe? I suddenly wish that I had the $2.25 per load laundry facilities that everyone complained about at Clarkson. Haha.

The rain prompted a lot of the people at my hostel to stay in for the evening, eat dinner there, and shoot the shit. It was actually pretty fun. I few of the girls there were looking for jobs in the area because it's apparently easy to find work in Nice. So if any of you are looking for a job in the French Riveria... Nice is the place to be.

On a side note, there is a small town between Cannes and Nice called Cagnes Sur Mer, which if I remember correctly was one of the stops the kids made in Eurotrip on their way from Paris to Amsterdam?!?!? Apparently then, they decided to take the train all the way to the south of France and then back up to Holland...whatever