The one in Beautiful Nice, France

My final trip during my study abroad semester was one of luxury and relaxation. I'm just going to point out the highlights, not so much the day by day activities. We took a flight to Nice to get there early in the morning and then took a cab to our rented apartment. There were 6 of us on this trip: 5 girls and 1 boy, or our chef as we liked to call Jonathan. We quickly checked out the apartment which was absolutely beautiful; there were 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, a really nice fully stocked kitchen, a living room with a pull out bed, TV, coffee table, etc, and then the balcony. The balcony was my favorite part. It didn't have a roof over it like all the others and you could see the glistening Mediterranean below our hill and down the valley full of houses and then hills climbing behind us on the other side. It was absolutely beautiful. The apartment was situated at the top of a hill overlooking everything and the balcony became my favorite place to sit when we got up in the morning and sit when we were eating dinner as well.

Each day we woke up, drank mimosas on the balcony while eating strawberries, and then Jonathan would make us omelets and we'd eat those on the balcony as well. After that, we had the freedom to do whatever we wanted! The first day we had hiked down the nature walk and bought mounds of food to last us the week. So each day we decided whether to go to the pool or the beach. The pool won 4 our of 6 days; 1 of the days we layed out on rented chairs near the water because Nice has very large stones instead of sand, and the other day we went to Monti Carlo in Monaco to see the ritzy city. They were both nice, but I preferred the pool, simply because you could lay by the pool at the top of our hill and still see all the beautiful scenery around you.

During the week, we ate amazing food (we did help Jonathan cook of course, but he really was the main chef for the week), laid in the sun for hours listening to music and reading books or magazines, played games like fishbowl at night, and watched movies. We drank casually, laughed often, and simply relaxed. We liked calling this week in Nice, the vacation at the end of our vacation, and that is exactly what it was.