Le Golfe de Saint-Tropez 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 ...

... need/want me to be there. rar. and i couldnt get home because no buses were running due to the crazy floods...the fact that there even was school on a day when half the teacher and students couldn't get there...is another story and also belongs on my list of illogical frenchisms...


anyways thanks to miguel, i made it both home and to saint raphael in time. thanks again miguel!!!!!

so while at the train station i witnessed ...

... are BMW, in Italy they are Alfas, and in France, it's the Renault that pulls you over.

But interestingly, in all the countries (including the little ones we went through) the taxis and the buses are all manufactured by Mercedes Benz. Well, I am not sure that this fact is something my boss & buddy Gary will be happy about..? or not..? I guess you could say that the Mercedes Benz is the "Work Horse ...

... spend the day sitting outside the old church listening to the "Women of Handel" do a dress rehearsal for their upcoming concert, a tribute in honor of the death of Handel, 250 years ago. You can enjoy the sounds of Handel in a video below.

Despite all the glamor in Cannes, there's also the old town of Cannes (le Suquet) and the vistas of the fancy harbor below. It's those picturesque moments, the tiny bistros, and photo opportunities that have made this trip real.

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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As we are having breakfast I have ordered the car from the garage and asked for the luggage to be brought down we have a long day of nearly 8 hours on the road and we do not want to arrive too late at destination. The first great surprise of the day came as Shirley (the friendly sat nav) told us it would only take 6 hours, and after taking the wrong turn on a freeway ...

... i had drunk a couple of beers and was feeling proud of myself. I couldnt really do anymore at the time but i was proud to have accomplished one of the main goals of my trip. Although the irish did not know my virginity to beer; the ulster jersey donated by gregory was almost a medal to potray this accomplishment. The irish wanted me to go to montecarlo the next day. I was extremelley tempted to go, but only had one more day and wanted to see cannes. They ...

DAY 6 - Barcelona to Nice, French Riviera BONJOUR!! Today we started to head back into France, towards the French Riviera. Another long day in transit, but apparently the last of the really long travel days...phew! On the journey, to keep us interested, we were all asked one at a time to come to the front of the bus, give our name, where we're from, the place we look forward to the most on tour, and an embarrassing moment or joke. It was funny hearing ...

... was weird but they assured us it was the way things had to be. we had a wonderful room with our own bathroom and an amazing view. we ended up having to order pizza for dinner because by now it was about 10pm and nowhere else was open. the guy who owned the place ordered the pizza for us and we ate with our new Canadian friends. SO MANY people there were Canadian as well - it was great! we turned in early because we were quite tired. Sunday June 26th, 2005 ...