European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Bus Tours from left a Tower of Metal violins forms a Street sculpture in front of a Public auditorium in Nice a Dalmatian looks for a snack at a sidewalk cafe and passers by look up As the tour bus Rolls Down a Cannes Street. Even by bus place to visit Story and photographs by Sarah Bottorff staff writer a f. A. I he burning question Wasi what was Canada s final won lost record in the 1986 world cup when they Bumble into the sidewalk restaurant in in it e late sunday night two sunburned Dane a 1 Oung Swiss and a Puri in who had met on the Beach just that morning a they were in hot and heavy argument about that 4-year-old soccer result. The argument was in their Only common language English ant they interrupted themselves frequently to talk to us americans at the next table and harass the waiter who said that Canada lost All three of its first round games. Four pizzas and a bottle of wine liter they headed Oft into the night dodging mopeds the remains of someone s late afternoon Beer and Perrier bask under a ca6 umbrella. And looking for a Canadian a any Canadian a to Settle the question. They probably found one. Nice is one sprawling loud United nations on the Beach. From May to september it seems everyone under the age of 25 from every country you can think of seems to be out. On its streets or sitting gingerly on its pebbly beaches. That makes a bus tour to Nice,.in Many ways one of the Best bets for single service members with not much Money not much time and a big yen to party. Not that this is one of those Tours where everybody models on the Way Down and gets sick out the windows on the Way Back. The French have a Way of enjoying themselves that does t include drinking to the Point of comatose condition and they get everyone else in the mood to do the same. In any event no one was yodelling on our enjoy tour a $199-a-head, 3 i Day trip from West Germany to Nice and Back in mid july. We had a military policeman from Frankfurt a Young officer from Baum older and his pal from California four gis and one huge Boom Box with earphones thank heavens in the Back a couple from Kentucky and another couple stationed in Sembach with teen age daughters. There were no Young children but Nice seemed the sort of place where they d be welcomed children were All Over the sidewalk cafes and in the restaurants. Enjoy Tours Are not called Quot endure Tours Quot for nothing and this was by no Means a perfect trip a although it was t All enjoy s fault. We had an unconscionable 1 hour wait to sign up for the tour at Saip s Frankfurt office and Only the intervention of a Sato employee spared us a second lengthy wait to sign up again two weeks later after enjoy cancelled the first tour Date we Pic ked. We spent More hours in a Mannheim parking lot wailing to Tran Are from tin d Ilmstadt f rare Fuit feeder bus p. It the bus to nit to. And w e spent More than an hour again waiting to Transfer trom the1 Nice bus to head Homo again on the Tea Der bus. T or , the t Del Sotic i in nice1, although luxurious and very comi Ortale turned out to be a halt hour walk from the Beach. The tour guide Wolfgang was know led Gahle and i a e  ill h stripes Magazine August 2, 19 0