Tuesday early hours
Our train arrived into Ventimiglia at 23:59 on Monday night.
A shuttle to Nice was due to depart at 5:20am. It was funny in retrospect how most of us spent half the night queueing at a ticket machine and all patiently took our turn with the Italian language only apparatus to fail to buy a ticket for the train.
It was charming that we all thought we might not get a seat on the train without a ticket. Especially cute when the train had been unlocked at 1am so we could all sleep on board in the warm!
In the end we were all allowed to travel for free and after a short train trip that went through Monte Carlo, Monaco we arrived in Nice with time to get a taxi to the car hire shop as it opened at 6am.
Pretty cool that they let you travel for free!
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