Hotel De Paris Cannes

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.

I know I always write the same...great weather, such a nice city, good food....but I have to say that Nice was a (very) big surprise for me, I can say that it is my favourite city in Europe (ok, number 2 after Lisbon). You have the mountains, the Cote dŽAzur (when you see the water you know why the name is Cote dŽAzur), the market with fresh vegetables, fruits, honey, oil, soap, you have great restaurants ...

... 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 ...

... hand lounge chairs. Thus we have to be pretty organised - everything has a home and has to go back there as soon as you've finished with it. This also means that every takes a long time... so our alarm goes off at 6,30am. This gives us 30 min to awake from our sleepy haze then coffee and breakfast 1/2 hr. Then make the bed into table and chairs. Change into running gear and run round the current place of abode. Shower and dress... even if we did everything with military ...

... at the Monte Carlo Casino. Mark was super keen on feeling like James Bond. He so wishes he was James Bond. It is kind of odd because once you are in the casino it is really quiet and not busy at all. Mark won about 300 euro so we were happy.

We checked out the start and finish line of the Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix, along with the famous hairpin turn. Even the locals fang it around that corner.

We headed ...

We sadly departed Paris (don't think we've been happy to leave a place yet, except for Honkers and that was different!) and took our first Eurail journey to Nice, located on the lovely French Riviera. As Dee turned 26 in October and is no longer a younging, we had to buy first class tickets in order to sit together (more expensive, but totally worth it!). So we were geared up for our first train journey. The train itself was unbelievable, the seats were soooo comfy and much more spacious than ...

Ok, so we only slept a couple hours, but the beach club was calling us. If I am going to pay 19 Euros for a chair; we will get the full day. Kids rose immediatley and off we went in suits. Arrived at 8:45 AM to the beach; Not a single person on the Croisette maybe some joggers, which you never saw before. They all started laughing when we arrived. The beach boys were getting the chairs and cushions assembled. They also put ...

... weekend is a free weekend, then a weekend to Provence with AIFS, then a three day weekend, which I need to plan a little something for and the my last weekend before the film festival. Tom and Sheena (Scottish cousins) are coming to visit me that weekend. I applied for an internship, so hopefully I will get one. Hopefully I will update again before then and let you know what happening. I'll also let you know about my June trip once it's planned. I hope everyone is doing well. Thanks for reading... if you got this far.

... in design and look, and looked as if they had not changed in style for over 800 years. What had changed about these buildings was the interiors of course. St. Paul de Vince has a well known artist community, and all these old buildings now house art galleries. I didn't go into any of these galleries because I knew that I couldn't afford the art nor did I have the time to really look at their pieces, but I did window shop ...

... back to me. Right now we just have an intensive French class every morning from 9 to noon, and then later on in september the other classes will start. The craziest thing is the professers teach all in french, because it's the common language, so I really have to pay attention or I'll miss something! French word du jour: la plage, which means the beach. Even if you don't know French you'd know that word in an instant here!