Hotel Mediterranee St-Tropez

Gorgeous morning and a stunning place for breakfast awaited us just outside Scooby overlooking the lake. I went for a run but Kim was feeling a little under the weather so she stayed and made me breakfast - yay! We spotted two girls about our age and attempted to engage in some conversation but their English was limited and French is rubbish. Shame as its manily been the grey hair brigade we ...

... tour for monday and spent the day seeing 5 different castles.
Our first castle was chenonceau, which remains my favorite. if i'm ever a fairy princess thats my castle. I think what made it so incredible was actually the fog. it was so ridiculously foggy you could barely see the outline of the castle which added to the surreal feel of all of it. unfortunately we made it back to the van late and our driver got all ***** and french at us. later ...

... Europe, but I think I would kinda like having the quarter horse of Europe instead. Wouldn't you..?

After being through Florence and Rome, it is understandable that small cars are a big hit. Many of these are featured in the quiz below. City streets and even small town roads are so tight and thin that parking is nuts and spots are few. This requires small cars and creative techniques. I have featured a ...

... did laundry in Florence and Rome) treking across 8 countries, challenging ourselves every night to read a menu... we're looking forward to coming home soon.

But first we were in for a treat arriving in Cannes. We have landed at the famous Majestic Barriere Hotel, on la Croisette Blvd. Talk about culture shock! Remember, we've just come from either busy, historic, tourist-laden cities or sleepy waterfront villages in Italy. The moment we drove our dirty 335 into ...

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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... for dinner. We then made our way to the restaurant on the beach and waited for Jerome to arrive. What a great night. Margaret and the kids went to bed around ten while I stayed up and chewed the fat until way past 0130am it was easy as we had a lot to talk about because we had no contact with each other for the last 23 years.

... Monte Carlo was a suburb of the area of Monaco or vice versa. I walked around Monte Carlo. Looked at the casino. It was a flash place and the cars were flashy. But i remember thinking that Moscow was flashier. I sat there and ate bread and peanut butter and then left back to the hostel. My clothes were still in the wash and all i had was a pair of jeans with a hole in the groin the size of a tennis ball, boxers and a "ciao bella" (hello beautiful, or ...

... surroundings. Toni and I took on the mission of spotting our future cars, it wasnt too hard, put it that way! The beach was stunning, not too crowded and very hot - bliss!! MOre beach bathing the next day,we had a wander and took in the surroundings and pretty much lazed around (again!)on the beach in Nice. THe beach has massive pebbles on it rather than sand,not so comfortable,but beauty is pain!!

... Our first full day in cinque terra was meant to include beaching and hiking between the towns but we never got around to the hiking bit, too lazy after lying on the beach for a couple of hours. We miss Aussie sand, these beaches all had rocks/pebbles. Oll would like it as it meant no sand! Basically thge rest of the day was spent ding the same thing, catching the train to the next town and going for a swim ...