"The sea was too blue to be wet"

Nice train station is lovely to look at. Much nicer than our destination train station, Monaco - Monte Carlo!

But Monaco itself is just as lovely as Nice, and has even better boats. If I could, I'd get one of these beauties and just sail around the world for the rest of my life.

If I had my eye on a boat, then someone else had their eye on a car we found - maybe your next birthday...

The discovery of a beautiful and blissfully quiet beach with sparkling blue sea left us wishing we'd brought our swimming stuff. In the end we had to make do with a quick paddle, before a lunch baguette at a beach café
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Apparently this a quite a famous bend? I don't know, racing isn't my thing. But Ben was very excited. Seeing a bit of where Casino Royale was set, however, got me very excited!

After a good wander it was time to head back to the train station. These steps were not a welcome sight!

 After battling the steps, we made it back to Nice and soaked up the last of the days sun on the beach there.

Nice beach isn't really very nice at all, to your bum at least. It's pebbles, not sand. But you can have great fun  with tower building competitions!

...and knocking them down again once you've built them!

As much as it's a little uncomfortable, it's a very nice place to sit for a little while and relax. If you could be on any beach in the world just now, which would it be?