We have arrived! And, yes, that is rain (and Scott) on the medieval path just outside our medieval apartment. But the forecast is for a little more rain Tuesday morning and then sun, sun, sun…. (Crossing fingers!)

We had a looong, interesting journey yesterday, including – once we arrived in Nice – a felonious ride on the train to villefranche. There were no humans selling tickets and the ticket machines did not appear to accept either cash or credit cards. We asked in our “best” French (translation: butchered and choppy) for help and finally an official-looking man just waved us on. That was fine until three transit police boarded as we were getting off at villefranche. We did NOT try to explain our plight (images of the French Connection and Midnight Express and Shawshank Redemption crowded our jet lagged minds). We just took our felonious selves and scooted off to our cozy flat.

We walked around town a bit, ate and hit the hay early..