The Poles have been put away

....Until we go on a real hiking trip through the Alps. Bill still feels a little safer now that Lin's weapons of choice have been taped up in their box. Note to Bill: she still has her Swiss Army knife.
We were able to get to Nice with no trouble. The one day strike was just that and was a non event from our perspective. Bill had confirmed with the taxi driver who took our luggage from one town to the next that he would be working even in a strike and he did. For 120 E's he also would have taken us to Nice had the strike extended to a second day.
We dropped off luggage at our hotel inNice as our room was not ready. We took a quick trip by a little train through the mountains to an 18th century city that was largely designed by Louis XIV's architect. Ok but not great.