Hotel l'Estirado des Adrets Les Adrets-de-l'Esterel

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 d´Azur (when you see the water you know why the name is Cote d´Azur), the market with fresh vegetables, fruits, honey, oil, soap, you have great restaurants ...

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 ...

Tout a commencé avec un train de nuit en retard de 50 minutes...Pour sauver de l'argent, on a pas pris les couchettes mais que les sieges inclinage. Bon, il faut avouer que ce n'est pas vraiment comfortable, et il faut de la pratique pour dormir la dedans.

On s'est quand même rendu bien fatigué à Nice. En arrivant à l'hotel apres 15 minutes de marche, il nous renseigne qu'il a eu un dégat d'eau ...

... of Prince Albert - no joke), then walked along the harbour. The harbour had a full fairground atmosphere with rides, games, food, lights etc. We had the most delicious kebab for dinner from a stall :-) So posh!

We then followed the curve of the harbour to gape at the boats moored there. The amount of money people obviously have is just obscene!

Next we thought maybe we would have a go at trying to win ...

... Prince' (The Little Prince), a gorgeous and very well-known kids book which is also an allegory, was based there. So the monastery/hostel has little pics from the book everywhere and is generally really cute. They were so nice, had a pick up bus service into town (as the hostel is located on a mountain about 15min walk into town). The hostel had an awesome communal kitchen, but also came with a chef that we did not expect, and every night they offered 5euro pizzas or a roast and veggie ...

... a charming spot and watched hed the tall model women all walk by and the handsome men with fine shoes, clothed just so, and great watches!!

it started to ran; first time in 20 days. Had to run all our food in, by the time we did, rain ended, sky opened and full sun again!!

then found unspoiled beach next to local kids summer camp (day). Walked to private jetty many times, kids collected more sea glass; We now own about 10 extra pounds of luggage in ...

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

... find it eventually and it was locked. Who locks a hotel in the middle of the day?? We're ringing the bell and no one is there. We must have been there for about 10 minutes until someone showed up. We left the hotel around 2 and walked all the way back to the beach. The water is this beautiful blue, but the beach is really rocky. We lied down for a bit, and wouldn't you know, I got up to take a picture when my bikini top snapped. At first, I thought it ...

... 305;d goodbye to brett and tess. however, someone comıttıng suıcıde ınfront of the traın. not good. Tuesday 18/10/05 Traın to florence there was adrastıc lanscape change from south france and northern ıtaly. ı was just gettıng use to french, and now everyone speaks ıtalıan. * thınkıng about extendıng the trıp a bıt...

... running, and we saw Gresi. She wasn't ****** so it was cool. We had some free time afterwards so we all went to the beach. The annoying (that's an overwhelming understatement) girl, Sarah, went swimming in the icy, cold waters. (Idiot!) Kathy, Cindy, Jenny, Mr. Aviles, and I were busy playing by the beach. Actually, too busy to see Jessica and Robin talking to three guys, one of which was a cute, Italian-looking guy. All of them ...