Leaving Nice

As I last left you the tour van that dona and |I were riding in was long overdue to return to our hotels.   Silvio said he was making progress in getting us back to Nice but he had no idea how soon that woud be.  He got into Nice and he spotted the Tram which is one of the modes of transportaion in Nice.  He offered to let us out and take tohe tram to our hotel which would only take a few minutes.  but none of us budged as we did not know where we were and if the trams were even working.  Silvio was stuck with us.  We felt safer with him.  Remember the reason for this dilema was that the French Presidnt was meeting with the Chinese President in a hotel and restaurant near our hotels.  Silvio was surprised that we did not take up his offer as he was very flustrated and worried about how we would get back.  He thought the tram was a good solution. He said to us  WOULD ONE OF YOU LIKE TO DRIVE THE MINI VAN AND I WILL TAKE THE TRAM.  We all of course laughed at this except for the Japanese who were not speaking.
Amazingly after this attempt to get us safely to our hotels their was a break in the traffic and he was able to get within a block from the Austrailian ladies hotel.  He said that they would be sleeping closer to the Chinese president than most people ever had the chance.  The French president would fly back to Paris but the Chinese Presidnet would stay in Nice and go to Portugal in the morning.
He then found a way to get close to the hotel of the Japanesse couple and the Brazillian couple.  We bid them a farewell.  Now Silvio was able to drive us strait to our hotel door.  we asked him if he knew of a good restaurnt near by and he showed us one a block away that looked like a alpine log cabin.  We bid him farewell and took his picture which hopefully before Christmas you will be able to view on this blog.  After dropping off our purchases at the hotel, we proceeded to the restaurant, Silvio pointed out to us.  We had a delicious meal there.  Good recomendation Silvio