The Wizard of Eze

Yesterday was HOT! so hot! Too hot waiting for our bus to take us up to the village of Eze. However it was well worth the extra 20 minute wait. The beach had beautiful views as every other beach in Cote D'Azur.

We were intimidated by the amount of steps and up hill climbing we would have to do, but when we saw the 85 year old man ahead of us hiking up with no problem we decided we should quit complaining. Turns out it wasn't that bad at all. We hiked up hill more in Monaco then we did here. So we hiked up the Chateau and then paid the well worth it $5 to get to the very top of Eze & it was breath-taking.


We even managed to find my favorite place of the village/ chateau... The tanning deck. It wasn't even just my favorite place because you could tan there, its just unbelievable.


The bus in Eze runs up and down about once an hour, and it takes about 10 minutes to get from the train station up to Eze Village. It seems that there is only one bus 83 and it just does a 30 minute route there and back. We were planning on taking the last bus out of Eze at 550pm, and we didn't want to miss it so we got there early. We waited from 450 to 550. No bus. 550 to 650 still no bus. As we were waiting, we made friends with two people from South Africa and a girl from Bulgaria and unanimously decided that the bus was not coming. The interesting observation of interacting with these other tourists is that they all speak English very fluently. It truly is a universal language. Anyway, we know that cabs are notoriously expensive in Europe, with good reason. All of there taxis are Mercedes-Benz. So a Mercedes-Benz minivan (didn't even know those existed) picked us up and drove us 10 minutes down the mountain for a whopping 45Euro! Oh well, it was worth it to finally make it out of Eze.



We had dinner at V.I.P on Rue de Maccarani (or something french like that) and the waiter spoke the best English that I have heard while being hear. That was convenient so that I could be difficult and order off the menu (grilled vegetables) which ended up being the perfect meal.

Other interesting observations thus far in France:

• People don't drive on the left side of the road
• Everybody in the world eats McDonalds and Subway apparently
  
• The men and women's bathrooms are not always separate
  
• Everybody smokes (even the women police officers)