Maeva Orion - Résidence Ste-Maxime

... wine bottle and then we thought they were off on the trail, but no they got in the car and drove on!
At the end of the gorge we joined the road towards Cannes, which was route Napoleon, orginially created by him as a pass through the mountains...very windy. Our destination for the evening was Grasse where we found a good park overlooking the city lights and our first view of the Med.

... they were forced to part, and i kid you not they kissed on the lips. thats right THE LIPS. apparently they start early here in france....


so on we went and arrived in tours. Albeit after a long sleepless night on the train and a brief moment in paris that included a walk to the seine.
On our way into the hostel we found an old thing, and a big church, followed by an even bigger church, followed by the wrong part of old town, then a ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... the wonderful "fun" and "vitamin" radio stations to keep us entertained with "Evacuate the Dancefloor" and 3 other dance songs that they kept repeating.

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Hello from the Cote D'Azur!

Feels like an age since my last update in Barcelona, and we've seen/done more in the last week than I can type on a weird French keyboard. But I'll give it a bash...

This is our second day in Sainte Maxime, having spent the last week motoring along the coast from Barcelona. Having had a really great time in Barça, it was a bit of a downer getting back into the van, but that soon subsided as we ...

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... Europe, so it was cool to go somewhere that was chill, but still beautiful and...French. And seriously, Nice was beautiful. The Mediterranean climate was great, and our hotel was walking distance from the beach. The most exciting thing though, was that Carnaval was still going on (mardi gras)! So the city was full of parades, silly string, confetti, and really outrageous costumes! In between crepes, silly ...

(Rob) We arrived in Nice two hours late and decided to quickly make our way on to Italy. We are now on a local train that does not require reservations or thus the additional fee. Traveling along the Mediterranean cost is beautiful. We have gone through several tunnels which lasted more than 10 minutes to go though. In between ...

... looking street filled with smelly, scuzzy people. But it's air conditioned, which is a nice change. Thank god, really, since they decided that for a bunch of us 'twin share' meant we could share one (very small) double bed. So I'm sharing a bed with the much hated roommate. Speaking of that, I dislike her more and more every time I talk to her. She's possibly smiled twice the whole time I've known her. Every time I come home from the bar I have to wake her up to ...