Nice was a great stopover to relax on the beach and enjoy some alcohol (hmm, ok, so the alcohol bit could probably be applied to every city, but anyway...). It was brilliant weather while we were there (yes, that's right, I've started speaking like the English already) and we had a nice dinner at a French restaurant where wine came by the litre (oh well, it still beats the cask stuff!). Despite it's reputation as a great beach, the fact that pebbles/rocks s...

From the first moments of my Top Deck tour I met some really nice people - most of whom were travelling by themselves like me. As predicted the bus was full of Aussies and Kiwis, but there were also a lot of Korean girls on the bus. There was also a couple of Brits added into the mix which was good! Much to the boys' delight the bus was full of females - story of my life ha ha. First stop was Paris (seemed like I has just been there...oh, that's right, I had...

We finally got our luggage back on Monday night - ironically we had just wasted a morning trying to buy all of the 'essentials' we needed to get by. I was thankful for insurance, but unfortunately $200 Australian dollars doesn't get you very far when you convert it into Euros - especially not in the centre of Paris! Anyway, we though we found a good department store (BHV) where we could but everything at once but it turned out to be more of a David Jones than the...

We arrived yesterday in Paris to find that our luggage had not arrived with us - Doh! As British Airways had no idea what had happened to it we were left to head into Paris with only a small day pack....grrr Part two of the drama is that our accommodation was no longer booked as apparently we hadn't called them to say we were arriving late early enough that day. As it was then 10pm at night we made a quick decision to just sleep in two different dorms in a...