Thu Oct 22 - Nice

Briefly sunny here in Nice today so we wandered around Place Massena and contemplated taking the train out to Cap Ferrat and hiking out . However, it did not take long for the clouds to roll in and the drizzle to begin again. We've been a bit cursed with the weather since arriving in Nice. So, we went to the Musee Matisse. What luck for Carl, because right next door are the remains of the Roman town Cemenelum. There are for the most part only foundations which survive. The exception in the baths building here. The museum is not big but it was worth the 45 mins we spent there.

Thereafter, we went to see Matisse. This museum has a wide variety of his works, covering 60 years. Perhaps the best part was his works for a chapel he had planned for Vence, just NW of Nice.

One of our blog followers asked how our French language skills were working out. Overall, we've been making many attempts - of course, the French seem to always want to respond in English - but the Rosetta Stone has definetly helped in understanding alot of day to day French. I made one funny mistake when in a drugstore I asked for a hairbrush ( brosse de cheveux) but instead I said brosse de cheveaux (a horse brush) . I'm sure they get those all the time.

This could potentially be our last blog. Tomorrow we take the train back to Paris. We'll stay in a hotel at the airport and fly out next day. It's been a wonderful trip and we're both very sad to leave (hopefully to return one day). Au revoir, all our blog followers. A bientot!