Friday, August 1, 2008

Around the mediterranean in 2 days!!!!

I had a look at my account balance the other day and I was very shocked to discover the speed at which my funds are disappearing. After acknowledging this I decided to step up the ante and get along the coast of France. I spent a night in Barcelona and then I hit the road on a 3 hour bus ride to Montpellier which is a nice little coastal French village positioned near to the coast. I said goodby e to speaking Spanish and welcomed in the French. I arrived in Montpellier at around three in the afternoon and I set about finding a hostel. After numerous sweaty hours of searching and obtaining zero results, I headed out to the beach to check it out and see if it was possible to sleep on it. I got to the coast and my eyes where met with thousands of tourists clinging to the shore and riding the waves... so much for sleeping on the beach. I came to the conclusion that I'd rather sleep in a different city away from the tourists and so after meeting a buisness man and chatting with him in line, I boarded a train to Marseille. On arriving in Marseille it was 11pm and Marseille has a reputation for hostility towards foreigners in the muggin kind of way so I decided to sleep in the train station. My plan was going well untill a security officer announced to me that they closed the station at 1am and that I should not be lying inside, rather lying in the street. Luckily I met three 20 year old English lads and three 18 year old American girls who told me that a cleaner had told them to walk up the "H" train platform and sleep up there. So we toddled up the platform and to my surprise the security didn't find us and we slept well. The next day I jumped on the train at 6am qnd headed towards Nice.

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