Thursday was the day KA arrived in Montpellier to sample the delights of the best city in France. Friday we went up the Lez to watch FISE, a variety of sports competitions that were being put on up the river. We saw some amazing and pitiful wakeboarding, BMXing and skateboading after climbing over a gate, which everyone managed to do effortlessly apart from us. That evening LA and I showed her what a typical night out here is like, and I think we showed her that the stories are all true. The NU was in great matchmaking form, dragging me along the bar so I could feel Brad Pitt's abs while shoving KA into a random man. The night ended with crazy salsa with the Mellons and a mental Frenchman. Obviously the next day was a bit of a slow one, so we just went to Aux Deux Fondues for dinner.

Sunday we were up at the crack of dawn to get the train to Nice. Sadly for us it was absolutely pouring with rain and we were soaked by the tinme we got to the station. It wasn't raining quite as heavily in Nice, and we soon found the appartment (picture) in a lovely square. The owner was a 30-something balding pervy Italian, who made me climb the ladder to the bedroom so he could gawp at me straight away, but he seemed alright and we didn't have to leave a caution. We were a bit bummed about the weather so we hung out in the flat for a while, then had a quick tour and went to the supermarket for dinner (a rather continental fish fingers, potatoes and haricots).

Monday we awoke to a dry sky, so our hopes were briefly lifted. We went to a local café for a breakfast of coffee and croissants; as usual every man that walked past said bon appetit to us. No sooner had we finished than the rain started again so we decided to go to a museum. We seemed to have all the bad luck though as both the Modern Art Museum and the Natural History Museum were closed and we couldn't even FIND the Wine Museum! We then went to the north of the city to the Russian church which was also closed for lunch, but the guard let us have a walk round the outside for a few minutes. Quite defeated, we then headed back to the old town for some lunch, where we stumbled upon a really great restaurant called La Tapenade. I had a starter of fried fish and vegetables, main of rabbit with tagliatelle and dessert of caramel ice-cream for 18 euros. That was definitely the turning point of our luck as we then found a piano museum that was open! I have to say I didn't really appreciate the pianos but the rooms were really nice in a (maybe) Tudor style. Eventually we returned to the flat where we found that the sofa bed didn't really go back into a sofa so we had to leave it out for the rest of the holiday.