For me, it seems like ages since I last posted, but it was really last night. That's because I was on trains for 10 hours. After we woke up and had breakfast, we went straight to the train station to catch a train to Montpelier. This train was a decent French train, took 4 hours, and was quite scenic. The ride was not bad. In Montpelier, the poorly designed station took us in a circle to get to our next platform, where grass was coming out of the tracks and a rusty train was sitting. The rusty piece of metal was what was going to take me to Barcelona for the next 6 hours. When I stepped inside, the smell was the first thing I noticed, it was bad... Thank god it was air-conditioned. The ride would only be 4.5 hours, but they doubled up with passport control, taking 30 minutes in both France and Spain, and then, in the Barcelona area, we had to keep stopping to let traffic by as we were a low priority train.
After the train finally stopped in the right station, we got off, and were greeted to the nice Barcelona station. After taking metro to our hotel, we got our room and were happy to find a nice open space and free internet. Before starting to write, we went out to eat a snack and check out the beach at night. It was a long and boring day, but we made it.
Note: I will start working on adding pictures from our last day in Nice and the train. They may either be available later tonight or with tomorrow's post.
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