Le Mas D Artigny St-Paul-de-Vence

ok, it was more "collecting a new country" than being really interested in Monaco. Strange, when you go there from Nice airport by bus it costs you 18 € one way, when you go from Nice bus terminal it costs 1 € one way. Monaco is a very clean city. I have never seen so many big and expensive cars. I saw the casino and the castle. Nice, but not spectacular.

... have an amazing view from Colline du Chateau. On saturday (November 28) we had sunshine and 19 degrees (end of November) and I was even swimming in the sea (15 gegrees), on sunday, November 29 we had rain and thunderstorms so that caused a delay of the plane of three hours. Best breakfast in town you find in "Les pains a tables" close to the market. Nice is a city IŽd love to visit once a year minimum.....

... Not only have the donations received already far exceeded my expectations, but the kind words and general interest and support that I have received have been amazing. So thank you all. It is all very much appreciated and I can't believe that between us we really will change these little lives. It is my motto here in Antibes, but this is the ultimate "think globally; act locally ...

Keeping Clean... the shower offensive Scooby is only the size of a delivery van... 4.8m Long and 2.3m Wide... fits snuggly into a shopping car park space. Height is not an issue as he is 2.6m tall so plenty of room for us shorties! The point is that space on the inside is at a premium, so the shower is "cosy"... but it does the job. Best of all we have a gas water boiler so the water is HOT HOT HOT!! We need to fill up our water tank every few days as there is only enough ...

... 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 ...

... the whole area was closed, with no eateries open. When we had exited the train station, we were supposed to go right and unfortunately we went left, and ended up doing a giant circle that lasted almost 2 hours, taking us past a football ground and also through the giant harbour. So when we arrived at the market/town area, and all was closed we now had a search on our hands to locate somewhere open to eat, since we were very hungry by now and the hulk was rearing in both of us!

Nice, Provence, France dan-and-dee

... we could extricate it . Now don't get me wrong I have become attached to our caravan but not so much that I wouldn't leave it there and head off or the rest of the trip bareback !!! Obviously we stayed to return the driveway to its former glory - seems kinda ironic that you have people to stay with a Pikey caravan and they end up re-doing your driveway , !!!! but no money changed hands , unfortunately - again a BIG thankyou to Ian and Caralyn

After Leaving Lerici we had planned to stay in San Remo, or Sanremo as it's really called. The traffic however was chaos so wekept going and finished up in a little town right on the border called Latte. We got ourselves a cheap bungalow that was in the process of being ronovated. Would have been good value if the hot water system worked. From there it was on to Monaco. We drove straight thru the city because we had ...

... involved. We felt a little underdressed so headed back to our vans, which we currently call home, and headed for Italy on the way north to Salzburg! The long road to Salzburg.... Part 1 Monday 9th So we left Pamplona a day earlier than we expected, and headed back down towards Barcelona to meet up with a broken down Zeke. We got most of the way then Cyrus and Annette blew a fan belt, meaning the other boys had to go back with their collective kiwi ...

... meant to be looking after the hostel ended up intoxicated, haha! One of the other guys here was 18 and was a french kid who wanted to know english. So we're all there laughing our heads of trying to communicate in English to him... After a few hours with em all laughing about Eddie Murphy's Delerious quote's i headed to bed. The next morning on the 26th, we were up early to catch the train to Barcelona! YEEHAW!! Nice has been really relaxing and ...