Orion B&B St-Paul-de-Vence

ok, it was more "collecting a new country" than being really interested in Monaco. Strange, when you go there from Nice airport by bus it costs you 18 € one way, when you go from Nice bus terminal it costs 1 € one way. Monaco is a very clean city. I have never seen so many big and expensive cars. I saw the casino and the castle. Nice, but not spectacular.

... have an amazing view from Colline du Chateau. On saturday (November 28) we had sunshine and 19 degrees (end of November) and I was even swimming in the sea (15 gegrees), on sunday, November 29 we had rain and thunderstorms so that caused a delay of the plane of three hours. Best breakfast in town you find in "Les pains a tables" close to the market. Nice is a city IŽd love to visit once a year minimum.....

It is Sunday and very wet and miserable here in Antibes. Quite a change from the glorious day we had yesterday. Ideal for computer work in fact... (Except that then things didn't pan out as planned and it is now Monday)

It wasn't my intention to have an entry before my departure but the response to my initial circular has been so overwhelming that I feel it merited an ...

... of the retired variety... nothing wrong with that, but even they are thin on the ground. Of course this has a lot to do with the time of year we are travelling and there is a festival van circuit the young antipodian crowd do each year, which is not really our thing. So it is our own fault for choosing this time and this route. The end result is that we tend to pounce upon anyone speaking English in the near vicinity. We haven't scared anyone off yet so we mustn't seem too desperate.

On this morning we left Switzerland and travelled south into Italy en-route to the French Riviera. The scenery was pretty spectacular, with snow-white capped, jagged mountains that seemed to swallow the highway. Surreal!

When we arrived at our hotel we had about 30 mins to get ready for our trip into Monaco! On our drive to Monaco we crossed the bridge that Grace Kelly was killed on in a car accident. The roads are ...

... of swimming in the pool, we had a sleep when we checked into the hotel, and it was probably the best nooze we've had since we began our journey. Feeling a little refreshed, w decided to splash out that night with a delicious pasta in a cute little restaurant and pour la dessert, we went back to the bakery we discovered earlier in the week for mille fluer for Dee and tarte au citron avec meringue pour le Lewey. Les desserts c'est tres bien! Apart from splashing out at the hotel, we'd been ...

... was a chart of the family showing the family line to the current day.

Next I went into the palace apartments. Both places provide an audio guide. The fresco's in the entrance hallway are very amazing and the building you look over to is painted with Abacus the wine god scene all over it.

The first room is on guns and weaponry used over the years, some old some new automatic ones. The next room has furniture from Toulouse La Trek, (a ...

... taking photo's. Found a shop that sold english magazines and books, walked upto the parc de chateau and around to the port and wondered around the antique market (well it looked like a car boot sale to me without the cars! and we watched this artist guy for ages who was painting directly onto glass with his fingers - amazing, Tim actually bought one.......I was in shock!). The weather is not so nice today Im afraid we just got caught in some rain (hence the visit ...

... accident. We got a room at a B&B run by a very nice woman, and after an awkward, silent breakfast with the only other guests - an older French couple wearing bike pants - we decided to try our luck heading to Florence a second time. We made doubly sure we had the right station and departed Arezzo early the next morning. Florence: On the crowded train, we were forced to stand between two carriages. After a while, an American guy with a guitar strapped to his back joined us, and ...

... was older not that cute...) wanted us to go out with him...we said we would think about it and he said he would drive to the resort at 1 am and if we were in the parking lot than we would go...so as he was saying goodbye...(he had to work another shift at a different resort) he kissed em on both cheeks and than came twords me saying "goodbye my love" and was heading for my lips so i turned my face and he kissed both cheeks...than the lifegaurd said "say hi to your wife" and ...