Camping La Pierre Verte Fréjus

... gesture. We can't change the world but we can change the way these children start off in life and who knows where that will lead....

It is less than 4 weeks now until I leave. There is much to do. I am trying to prepare myself for "teaching" 20 - 25 children. A bit of a challenge that. Much as I have known that I have always wanted to do something like this, now that it ...

... wine bottle and then we thought they were off on the trail, but no they got in the car and drove on!
At the end of the gorge we joined the road towards Cannes, which was route Napoleon, orginially created by him as a pass through the mountains...very windy. Our destination for the evening was Grasse where we found a good park overlooking the city lights and our first view of the Med.

... they were forced to part, and i kid you not they kissed on the lips. thats right THE LIPS. apparently they start early here in france....


so on we went and arrived in tours. Albeit after a long sleepless night on the train and a brief moment in paris that included a walk to the seine.
On our way into the hostel we found an old thing, and a big church, followed by an even bigger church, followed by the wrong part of old town, then a ...

Cannes is not as glamrous as we thought it would be, it still has all the fancy smancy stores along the beach, but there were definitely no red carpets rolled out when we were there. We did a day trip to St-Tropez, its was the end of a hge sailing competitiona and tons of ...

Vandaag doen we de canyon samen met Renzo.

We hebben hem niet zo heel veel gezien deze week, maar vandaag trekken we er met ons drieën op uit om de Imberguet te gaan doen.

Bedoeling was om tijdens deze canyon ook wat reddingstechnieken te oefenen, maar uiteindelijk zijn we er niet aan toe gekomen.
Saint Laurent du Var, France vangorp

... zijn van allemaal, hij biedt wel de mogelijkheid om een aantal technieken zoals het aanleggen van looplijntjes,... te oefenen.

Verder is er nog een ander groepje net voor ons de canyon in getrokken, we zullen hen nog een aantal maal tegenkomen in het verder verloop van de canyon.

Op een bepaald moment blijkt dat er ergens een foutje in de topo zit... We komen aan een rappel en weten niet of ...

... up with an idea, which only Pete can !! He decides to visit a house next to the garage to see if he can persuade someone to put our petrol on their card, and we pay them cash. Hooray - through a mixture of French and English, (and a lot of sign language), he comes up trumps. Two very kind French men came across and filled our tank up for us, and wouldn't take anything for a thank you !! So on with the travels to Fontaine de Vauclause feeling a lot less stressed ...

... sheep, some goats, some cows and I believe some pigs as well. I don't remember seeing any chickens...I think I saw a donkey as well but don't remember. I think that they were going to hold the play that night and the next day (Remember this was Christmas Eve). Then on the other side of the manger I saw an old Romanesque looking church. I decided to walk in side to not only see what it looked like, but also to get an idea of when ...

... down from the nights adventures. The next morning, I again, checked out of the hostel, and, armed with a camera and discman, set out to see the town. I spent the day, window shopping, meandering through the parks, taking pictures, and riding a train tour around Nice Vieux (Old Nice) and up Mont Boron to a spectacular view of the city. By 5 O'clock, I was exhausted, having slept little the night before, despite my attempts to be responsible and go to bed at a reasonable ...

... route to Paris, passing as many places of interest as we could possibly squeeze in during our 5-day drive. In order to do this, I started a Mapquest. By chance I happened to come across Via Michelin. This was a wonderful find as it showed intimate detail of the French highway system right down to detailed city centre maps, especially useful when it came to locating our hotels. I could even print out the maps in glorious ...