La Maurette Roquebrune
Travel Blogs from Roquebrune-sur-Argens
Day 16 - The Monte Carlo
... All of us were now getting very behind on our washing so we set off to try and find a laundromat and explore the coastal city. We took some tourist photos sticking our heads in the jack sparrow cut out and Todd in the Charlie's angels one too. We saw the building where Cannes film festival is held. We went to the beach to but part of the walkway was closed for something. It's strange that we only travelled like 30 mins on the train and we had ...
We return to the ancestral manse
... As always, the venerable Colombe d’Or restaurant, which guarded the entrance to the village, was surrounded, like a swarm of black flies, by Mercedes, BMWs and Jaguars. The Colombe is stuffed with original art by the likes of Picasso and Matisse—in the 1920’s and 30’s these unknown and impoverished artists stayed at the hotel and the prescient owner accepted their painting as payment in lieu of cash.
Then we walked past the ...
Monte Carlo !!
... going through lots of tunnels then descended into Monte Carlo..... more tunnels and it really felt you were going into the cliff face. We kept going past the palace with all the fountains down the hair pin bends used in the monte carlo grand prix and eventually parked in the underground car park in the famous tunnel......Vic was in his element with being a grand prix fan and his camera ...
Walk to the Monastry
As today was the 7th anniversary of the death of Vics first wife Pam, we decided to walk to a monastry in the mountains. We took the car up through the village of Roquebrune parked as far up as you could and then took the path up the mountain, it was hot and quite a steep path but there were plenty of cork trees so we stopped many times in the shade. Once into ...
1st Break: Ghana to stormy Nice...not so nice
... So Day 1 (arrival day) was wet and horrible, ended up in a casino and then back at the hotel to watch the French Open Tennis Final (at this point I realised I was actually in France for the final!) and get annoyed at Federer. Day 2 was walking along the boardwalk in front of the stone beach (when you’ve swum at Cottesloe or Scarborough, this beach really is laughable) and explored the Old Town. Really is picturesque when the sun shines and lots of hot bodies and winding alleys ...
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Formule 1 Frejus Roquebrune sur Argens
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