Day 8 - Trains, trains, trains

Well, last night was interesting to say the least. We had another sunset cheese, bread, and wine fest before grabbing our neccesary items for camping out on Les Calanques. When we went back to the hostel, we got a game plan together for how we were going to get to the mountain; we decided to call a cab. Luckily for us, the woman at the front desk was nice enough to call for us, but we didn't make it to the cab until after it had been waiting for a few minutes, so by the time we got into the car, we had racked up 7€. Then the cab driver took us a different way to Les Calanques; I asked him a few time about the route to make sure he wasn't trying to rack up a fee, but my French wasn't good enough to tell him out the route we took ealiar that day. So, we ended up at the mountain, but the only difference was we were on the other side. We were a little upset first because the place we were dropped off was way more remote of a location than the other side, and it would make it harder for us to catch our train. But, we decided to make the best of it and had a good time anyway. We were at a little port of a place, and so there were lots of little boats, so we slept in them - Buck, Riley, and Mike in one, and I slept on an upside down one next to them.

We woke up around 7am, when the sun started blasting us in the eyes. We had to get back to our hostel, and then catch a bus, then a métro, then a train, and we had a long walk ahead of us to get out of Les Calanques. To make a long story short, we ended up walking about 2.5 miles to get out of the mountains and waited at a bus stop. After that, we had to do a lot of figuring out how to get back to the hostel taking buses that we hadn't seen before. But we did it. It took us a couple of hours, but we did it. From there, we collected our belongings and got our stinky butts out of there.

We ended up catching a train at 4:30pm, and now we're having a layover in Nice. We'll arive in Cinque Terre around 11:30pm, with one more layover ahead of us. Hopefully we can find a hostel so late at night, but if not, it wouldn't be so bad to have another night under the stars...