We are on our third train today traveling through Italy. We're heading from
Nice, France to Lucca, Italy. We've just spent two nights in Nice and it was nice. Here's a little recap of the nice Nice adventures.
Once we arrived in Nice on Sunday, we wanted to catch a taxi because our hotel was close. We find one in a few minutes, driver seemed nice enough and even spoke English very well (you don't find that a ton). He drives us about a kilometer then says he has to drop us off to walk down Rue de Paradis, obviously no cars are allowed on that street. Then he proceeds to charge us 17 euros for the ride! It was supposed to be about 5 euros. Jerk ripped us off and we mentioned it, but after traveling on trains all day, we just let it go. Sometimes you have to do that, when traveling, and definitely in life.
JUST GO WITH IT.
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| The street right outside our hotel. |
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| Around our hotel. |
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| Our little quaint hotel, if that is what you call it. |
We arrive at
Hotel Le Petit Trianon, which is in an awesome location, right in the middle of town. The hotel itself is on the third floor of the building. No lift and just stairs made of marble. So, we arrive to a big wooden door and a key pad to the right. Then a girl comes and pushes a button for us, she's staying in the building too I guess? Then, she walks into town. Then, a young Russian girl greets us in the tiniest reception area I've ever seen ... one small room large enough for one simple desk and chair across from it, two small side chairs.
So, she is from Russia, we are from the USA, and we are all in France. She speaks some English, but very funny and shaky and we speak no Russian. Between both of our terrible french, we somehow communicate. Thing is, this hotel does not really keep a reception area, nor offer any services, etc. Not that impressed at this point. It's more like an upscale hostel that costs 90 euros a night and not even a coffee pot in the room. BUT they were kind enough to leave one plastic bottle of water with two glasses. It was a decent place.
There are only 7 rooms total in the "hotel" and all down one narrow hallway, then the tiny reception area on your way out the door. It was, however, renovated nicely with simple, soft neutrals and browns. The room was tiny but efficient and we even had a small balcony ... overlooking the backs of the buildings, which was not so elegant. It had double french windows to get onto the balcony, a small potted orange tree, and a chair. So I was happy I could get fresh air instead of having to go up and down three very long flights of stairs!
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| Tiniest shower along the trip thus far. Tough for Steven! |
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| This is how it was set up?! |
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