Hotel Le Flore Fréjus

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 ...

... 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.

... charmed him with our amazing french skills and naturally he fell in love with us...well ok maybes not, but he told us the history of the area and said we could even contact him if we ever needed help with french.

anyway so we went on to see amboise, which was medieval. Chambord, which was built as a hunting lodge. A HUNTING LODGE?!?!?!?? gah crazy castle people. its just about the most amazing and grand thing ive ever seen. the staircase on ...

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Oddly, we haven't seen as many sports/exotics over here as you might think. There are a few Porches here and there. Big deal.. Some Ferraris but again not as many as I thought I would see. Oh and a couple of "greasers" in Lambos (Good God..! This could be a blog topic all on it's own, so I'll discuss in person over a glass of wine with the quiz winner)... So, what was the most spotted and ...

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 ...

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... here we had our first proper hiccup of the holiday !! We are now about two and a half hours from 'home' with only 30 miles of petrol left. Easy, you may think, find the nearest petrol station. Of course, we did, BUT as it's a Sunday there is no-one working in the garages, and you can only use the pay at the pumps with your cards ! So, we try. None of the garages would accept our cards. Between us we had 4, and it said NO to them all. Panic time !!!! However, Pete ...

... all of these lovely cathedrals and barely any one goes. Anyways, now I was starting to feel better that I had now fulfilled my obligation as a Catholic and had attended Christmas Eve mass, and I was starting to plan at what time tomorrow that I would go to a christmas day mass in the same church. Once the mass had ended, I decided to walk around Vieux Nice some more and do some more shopping. I went into a lot of souvenir shops, primarily ...

... new ones are pulling in every day. Season is coming quickly. I don't have a lot of spare time to enjoy it fully, but the weekend is almost here. The weather forecast is saying 25 dergrees C (78 F) for Saturday and Sunday, so the beach is looking closer and closer. Photos will be updated after this weekend and I'll have more then. Take care and have one for me as well, Tim

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