We have now arrived in Italy, but we spent a wonderful 4 days on the French Riviera.

Our lovely apartment was high on a hill between Nice and Cannes, and about 5 kms from the beach.

We stayed near the medieval village of Biot, notorious for its glass blowing, and at one stage was inhabited by the Knights Templar!

 

The walk up to the village was a work out in itself, and a good test for Greg’s knees!

 

 

 

 

Our”local” actually made quite good coffee which we were quite pleased about! We have worked out now , that in France, a cappuccino is not made with Chantilly cream piped on the top anymore…yuk….. but it is a latte with liquid hot chocolate poured into it! Still yuk! The cafe cremes actually went down quite nicely!

Our landlord, Corinne was extremely helpful with recommending some day trips and lunch spots for us.

We ventured into Antibes , and the Old Town was lovely.

We arrived at the same time as the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, and the boats , or should we say the rather large boats in the harbour were amazing.

 

 

We “did lunch” at a great little restaurant on the coast, and we were both “in heaven”. Rhonda had her first sea bass which was sensational, and Greg enjoyed his pork ribs.

 

 

 

 

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After lunch we had to walk off the calories, so we ventured around the coastline , and it was pretty spectacular.

 

The private beaches are quite amazing and the restaurants associated with the hotels are very upmarket…..we were not dressed appropriately for those!

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We did another drive around the “French” version of the Great Ocean Road, or the Corniche de L’Esteral.

 

 

There were more private beaches galore, stunning coastline, and we found a retirement villa,below, that we are asking donations for, to fund. Of course any donations will be granted some “free accommodation” , so any takers???????

 

We partook of another loooong lunch which was again fantastic.

Rhonda’s sea bass was again great , and the Grand Manier souffle ……..well what can one say…..it was bloody awesome!

 

 

 

The next day we headed away from the coastline, and headed up The Gorges De Loup

We stopped at the pretty little hill top village of Gourdon, one of the Most Beautiful Villages of France, and we could see why!

 

 

We thought we should at least see the beach at Nice……pebbles no sand…..but Greg still did his usual of “sand castle” building,. The water however was a spectacular colour, and the view along the coastline was great.

So it’s that time again

Arrivederci!

Ciao

Love The Roberts

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