Les Palmiers Hotel Sainte Maxime Ste-Maxime

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 ...

... tour for monday and spent the day seeing 5 different castles.
Our first castle was chenonceau, which remains my favorite. if i'm ever a fairy princess thats my castle. I think what made it so incredible was actually the fog. it was so ridiculously foggy you could barely see the outline of the castle which added to the surreal feel of all of it. unfortunately we made it back to the van late and our driver got all ***** and french at us. later ...

... Alfa appear to be wagons bringing home the wine and sausage. In France, Peugeot, Citroen and mostly Renault are the ones delivering the bread.

Another interesting car trend was present throughout the journey. That would be the brand of choice for police cars, taxis and buses. Predictably, the police cars are manufactured by the companies that reside in that particular country. So, in Germany police ...

... Tax Free World Wide Expo) which has brought in all the top brand names of luxury products and all the pretty people: The Names (i.e. Chanel, L'Oreal, etc...), those who buy it (Airport directors, duty-free shop owners, on & on) and those who "sell it" and spray their new scents on you (The Ducati Girls who were hanging out in the lobby trying to sell John a new eau de parfum... ). So even more pomp and circumstance than usual- perhaps a bit reminiscent of the Film ...

... than i could paint.

so we get to school and i try to figure out where to go. eve (contact lady) said i had a terminale class at 8:30. well according to the proviseur ( vice principal guy) there are no terminales at 8:30 on wednesdays....okay....?

so i call eve ( our contact lady who is supposed to make our schedule but actually does nothing except annoy us), and im like wtf? please explain and it she tells me that she is going to be late for ...

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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... packed in. It just does not look relaxing. To me the beach is about the outdoors, peace and quiet....it is a different scene here, obviously not for me. I found a cheapie hotel with a really super cheap ugly room (20 euros), basically because it is like a closet with a bathroom. Who cares, I only have to sleep there. I am paying less for four nights than most people pay for one! Anyway, Nice has a nice old quarter that I wandered around in, did some ...

... store) and was promptly dragged into a far too detailed (for my knowledge) discussion of football with a Swede. Even my blankest stares couldn't deter him. I also was asked to decipher an Italian phone card. About phone cards: they suck. They rarely work, and when they do they are super-fickle about how numbers are dialed. Some work with some payphones, others only work with landlines (which aren't usually ...

All kinds of fun & games last night with the couchette. Me and Agor, a Spaniard roughly my age (also backpacking abouts) arrived first, and took the two top bunks, which seemed to be correct based on the little layout sign on the outside of the door. However, an Italian and his partner arrived on the scene soon thereafter, and made out that the beds were actually theirs. The pair proceeded to tattle to our friendly neighbourhood ticket inspector. He came and informed us that ...