Cannes Rivage Hotel Mandelieu La Napoule

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 I´d love to visit once a year minimum.....

... 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 ...

... tait puisqu'on partait encore dans la nuit.
Et bien...notre train quittait surement au moment de cette discussion...

Et oui...on a manqué notre train...
Puisqu'il avait pas d'autre moyen de se rendre a toulouse, on a du redormir à l'hotel une autre nuit et partir le lendemain....

Je vous ai dis que oiseau ma chier dessus à Marseille? C'était pas supposé de me porter chance ca?

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 ...

... French Riviera is all that its cracked up to be, absolutely gorgeous views, the water was so blue and clear, and relatively warm in comparison to Melb beaches, and had it been a few degrees warmer, we probably would have dared a swim. Ah well. There's always Barcelona! But seriously Nice is absolutely lovely, and apparently 17 and overcast here translates as not a cloud in the bluest sky we've ever seen, with sun shining.... life's tough aye...

With the lovely weather (in comparison ...

... Grocery shopping has been interesting here. It seems that there are 2 grocery stores for the area. The bigger of the two was like nothing we have ever seen. They sell everything from household items, clothes and groceries to everything in between. There were 80 cashiers and they have a travel and insurance center, banking, photo shop, flower shop, and of course a bakery. One of the many parking lots had 1500 parking spots ...

... more zeros behind it. Back in Nice, we relaxed and had some dinner. Karla wanted to have a night in but I coaxed her to walk around with me through old Nice. "Just 20 minutes of walking around. If we find a café we'll stop in it," I said. The walk started off romantic enough but after an hour of walking, I realized I had no idea where I was and there were no cafes to be seen. We were in a dark part of town and it was starting to rain. This was NOT the romantic walk that I ...

... Nice! After some serious searching, we found an available room, and just as we were about to pay, a girl came up to us and asked if we would be willing to share the room as a triple with her. She seemed harmless enough, so we agreed (it saved us some cash!) and headed up to the room. Ali and I went out to grab some dinner, and then came back to the room to chill out after a long day of travelling. This morning we woke up and ...

... 31 years old. God that sounds old!! I am trying to figure out where I am going to be on my special day. It looks like I will be in Florance, Italy, but I would like to end up in Rome by then, well see. I just got an email from Clint Gonzalez (TKE from SWT). He is living over here now. He will be in Istanbul, Turkey from May 2 - 17 vacationing at his dad's house. He invited to me come visit. I think I may try to make that happen. How often to you get that opportunity....never!