At Least The Food Is Cooperating

The weather did not cooperate today.  It was raining pretty hard so I didn't go out until 11:00AM.  Luckily I went to the train station because it seems I need a reservation every time I travel which costs extra.  I don't know if the EuroPass was really a good idea but it is too late now.  The supplement for a first class ticket to Amsterdam is over 60 Euros.  I got a 2nd class ticket and the supplement was only 39 Euros.  That is because it is EuroStar so they told me.

I took the tram to the Vieille Ville and found the little restaurant from yesterday which was a good move.  It was a charming place and the food was great.  I had a wonderful seafood salad (cuttlefish, calamari, octopus and mussels on greens), a côte de veau with mushrooms which was the special of the day with rose wine.

I found a lunch companion with whom I am having dinner, a single woman who came in with a dog.  She sat at the next table which was like sitting at the same table because it was very tight and her French sounded like mine so I asked her if she was American.  She is from Washington DC and living in Nice for a few months.

I left her and found a bus to go to the Matisse Museum.  I was afraid it might be closed on Tuesday and in fact it was closed and pouring when I arrived.  I then turned around and took the bus back and landed a few blocks from my hotel.

It is still raining but I am going to take the tram back to Place Garibaldi and I am going to have oysters.