So we managed to get up at 6:30am to make it to the Uffizi Gallery before we left Florence. I’ve never been up that early to go to a museum. The gallery contains work like the Birth of Venus from Boticelli, work from Rapael, Leonardo (the Annunciation), Rubens, Titen, Caravaggio and more. There are a handful of extremely famous paintings and Peter had never seen or heard of some. Peter is totally museumed out…so we will take a break in the next city.

We decided to stop in Nice, France for the night….so off we went. The only problem is France is on strike, so they dropped us off at the border. At the border we had to find another train. We met a nice man named Rob on the train and we drank vino together on the way to Nice. At least we made it to our destination….he never made it to his in Marseilles. The best quote from him all night was, “11 year old boys are gaseous.” We were talking about people who fart in public.

When we arrived we had no idea where to stay and we couldn’t find a pay phone, so we just walked and finally found a cheap hotel. The night guy didn’t think we were American. He said we were polite and we don’t look like Americans. We are getting that a lot and I’m still not sure what Americans look like.

We took off to explore the city and to use some wifi to look up the next train to Barcelona. The French seem to be pretty smart about WIFI….everything is secure. We found WIFI in the most unlikely place….McDonald’s….hahahh yeah. It’s free in you buy something…so we bought a coke. They really do have a Royal with Cheese….heheheh.

Nice is pretty interesting at night. It’s right on the Mediterranean.. I can’t wait to see it in the day.

The bed in the hotel is an actual full sized bed and not two twins pushed together. It’s nice. BTW I got bitten all over in Florence. It can’t be bed bugs since Peter is fine. I’m not sure what the hell it is….mosquitoes? But it looks like tiny bee stings….aahahahahhh.