Driving in Nice turned out to be an absolute nightmare! A good majority of the roads are one way streets; there are roads that isn't immediately clear if it was a pedestrian zone, tram-only, or a one-way street. On top of that was chaotic traffic and lots of pedestrians, and us occasionally getting our left and rights confused didn't help.... Though we weren't the only confused ones, the GPS sometimes couldn't figure out where we were (which has never happened elsewhere!) and other times it tried to lead us down one way streets the wrong way. After 20 minutes of trying to get to our the hotel, we abandoned the idea of getting there in a car.
Fuel was the next problem - the first petrol station the GPS located did not exist; the second one was so small - just a single pump wedged between a chaotic carpark and a motorshop, it took circling the carpark three times before we could locate it.
Then finally, returning the car! After a few wrong turns we managed to get to the Europcar office - but the garage for dropping off the car was 50m away from the office, separated by a one-way street that we were on the wrong side of! We were so close, yet we did not dare driving the wrong way down a one way street in front of a police station. It took 20 minutes of circling before FINALLY getting to the garage, and by that time we had driven around the city centre, not more than a few kilometres wide, for over an hour!
After that horrible experience, thankfully our time at Nice got a lot uh, nicer!
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