Hotel Welcome Villefranche

... each port and I am going to need a lot of second lives to accomplish this. I am sure heaven will be much like VilleFranche! There was a little crafts market right near the dock so we looked around and then walked along the harbor to the train station, We ...

Spending time in the South of France... European ...

We have had a fantastic 3 nights in Villefranche sur Mer in the Hotel Welcome. A different way of life from Caromb but so nice to be on the waterfront and enjoy the sights of the Med. Villefranche is about a 15 minute bus ride from Nice on the way to ...

... a taxi. Fortunately we called early as 2 cruise ships had docked early and about to unload 6,000 screaming tourists upon quaint Villefranche, all scrambling for a taxi at the same time! We latched onto our taxi driver for the short drive and he dropped ...

... I made a few photographs of the area, which you can see posted here, and went to catch the next train to Villefranche. A little larger than Eze, but still nothing like Nice, Villefranche is another one of those picturesque coastal fishing towns, turned ...

... it to Marseille and instead settled for a picnic on a rather pleasant beach not too far from Perpignan before making our way to Villefranche-sur-Saone for the night. A short drive north is the town of Chalon-sur-Saone, where Kodak France was once based ...