Sean Lennon Day 23, Nice, FRA

So my first impression of Nice is that it's not very nice. Hahaha... yes that joke got old really fast. It seems the whole city is being reconstructed and it's just unpleasant, like being in a giant industrial zone. Actually, it's kind of like being in Secaucus, NJ, or maybe Regina, SK. It blows.

The Lino Ventura theatre was sort of nice, but the neighbourhood was depressing. There really isn't much going on here. We somehow miraculously found a place to get a drink after the show, which really was quite the chore, but then somehow had a great donair on our way back to the hotel, which, oddly enough, isn't nice.

That's even more disturbing though because it's a Sofitel, one of the premier hotel chains in the world. The Sofitel in Munich was phenomenal. When we arrived this afternoon, the bellhop saw the bus and literally ran away, then came out and shook his head and refused to help. Then, when he realized there was maybe 1 bag left, he appeared out of thin air with a dolley, only to have us tear a strip off him and tell him to get lost, and he did so, hanging his head in shame. Later on, one of the guys saw him picking leftovers off a room service tray in a hallway... Classy guy...

We have a day off in this disaster of a city tomorrow, but we're told it might be nice down by the waterfront, so we'll check it out and I'll let you know...