Hotel-restaurant La Toupinelle
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Nice Place Shame about the Weather - Tim
... along the gorge to Pointe Splendid at the start of the main track. Once we arrived however it was pouring with rain also Serena (GPS voice) had stopped talking to us and gone on strike so all in all we were a bit fed up and decided to move on to Castellane - the next town along the valley.
As soon as this decision was taken of course the weather started to improve but by the ...
Good weather and vistas (Tim)
Breakfast and off from Apt this am. We decided to head for the little town of Saignon just to have a look and we surprised ( after yesterday) to find a convenient free carpark. Walking up th hill we were delighted to find a beautiful quiet hillside town. An excellent little patisserie serving coffee for me and glance-cream for the boys awaited us and even produced reasonable tea for CJ. Compulsary tartelettes ...
The rough stuff in Var (Entrecasteaux week 2)
Sunday - another very hot day that ended in a nice cleaning shower of rain. Didn't do much today. Went into Entrecasteaux (about 2 km's away) and walked around the village and the Meil (honey) festival. Guess what we bought? Also took James to Cotignac which is only 8 km's away. Otherwise, lots of reading and eating. We are staying in a small apartment(?) attached to a large house. It has a patio area (with electronic sun shade) ...
Smelling the lavender (Entrecasteaux week1)
Collected our hire car at Avignon TGV, automatic desiel Peugeot 308. Got our GPS and iPad working and hoped the free Nav software would work accurately. It did and we just followed its instructions faithfully and arrived at our destination safely and right on time. Got some shopping and then Tony and Elaine arrived. Didn't see any lavender! Sunday - overcast and threatened rain but ddn't actually rain. Drove around a number of local villages. We thought ...
Cooling off at the lake
... place to kayak is at Lac de Castillon or more specifically "shack du lac", another 20-30 minutes further. To actually visit the gorge we'd have to park on one of the roads we passed 30 minutes back and hike 5 hours down to the gorge. The decision to continue 30 minutes to the lake was easy after that. 3 hours after we'd left Lourmarin we found the shack, a restaurant which proudly ...
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