What a day

We have finally arrived at our accommodation in Nice, 24 hours after we left Barcelona and a trip that should have taken 8. Turns out that the poor folks who work for SNCF, on their 36 hour a week contracts, are cross that the French government want them to work until they are 60 instead of the current retirement age of 55. As always happens in France everyone else has joined in in sympathy. So we arrived into Nice with no trams, busses or taxis so we walked 1.5 miles to the apartment. The accommodation is very nice and a welcome reliefRead more