The bus ride was pretty long, over an hour, but picturesque as always. (I feel like I'm an expert at the 100 bus now haha) Unfortunately, as we got into Menton, it had started to sprinkle. :( Luckily we were able to find our hotel pretty easily, and settled in. The hotel is actually super cute! It's located right next to a school, so we were able to hear the children singing from our hotel room, and we had this cute little balcony that overlooked the schoolyard. And the hotel is called Hotel Lemon!
When we thought it had cleared up, we decided to walk around town. Then to our horror, it started to rain again within 10 minutes! T__T Luckily, we were able to duck into a convenience store to look for postcards while the rain was at its heaviest. We also ended up walking all the way to Cap Martin, which is the town just west of Menton (visiting all these hipster towns no one's heard of haha). On our way back, we walked along the beach, which had gorgeous views of the town. Now knowing that the whole French Riviera (and actually Italian Riviera as well) looks this amazing, I'm not so impressed with Nice anymore...
View of Menton from the beach!
We then walked around Old Town, and to our dismay, all the best restaurants didn't open until 7PM at night! (Why do Europeans eat so late!!) So we literally walked around and killed time from 5:30-7PM, so that we could eat a nice dinner on our last night in France. We went to La Belle Escale, which was a blend of Italian and French cuisine. And this restaurant had the best BREAD I've had yet in Europe! It was like a flatbread, with an herb rub and sea salt! Mmmmmm. I totally pigged out on it! We also ordered an appetizer of mussels to share (delicious!) and I ordered fried calamari and prawns. A pricy, but yummy dinner. And probably our longest yet, as it took almost 3 hours for our 3 course meal! (Oh yeah, they also gave us shots of Limoncello at the end of our dinner, but Stephanie didn't like lemon, and I had nothing to chase it with... :( haha)
It was so good I had to take a photo of the last piece!
The long dinner was probably not the best idea, as walking back to our hotel was pretty scary at night, when nobody was out on the streets >.< And then there was only wifi in the (now empty) lobby, so Steph and I had to come down together because we were too scared to go by ourselves. And the buzzer that sounds every time someone comes in through the front door sounds hella scary! Also, woops, I guess I didn't really take any photos on my phone yesterday... >.<
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