Really like this area of France, of the south coast. Everything is very light, bright and floral. Also very tourist orientated and at this moment, towards French tourists, rather than other visitors, as this is a holiday weekend. All the better that the sun is shining very large and yellow in a lovely cornflower blue sky. Using the little map provided by the campsite we set off to find Bandol which is a few miles to the west on the coast. First attempt to get towards the sea took us to Sanary-sur-mer so we attempted to drive the coast road to Bandol but were thwarted at several turns as this particular area of coastline seems to be filled with some rather exclusive houses and private roads, especially any road with direct access to the sea. With ... read more

Excellent trip out today. We love visiting medieval villages and getting around by scooter is the very best form of travel, especially on a lovely sunny day. We can go where we want, stop when we want and also, pretty well park where we want. We scootered from the campsite, past La Croix Valmer and up and up the winding road, behind the St Tropez peninsula, to Ramatuelle. This is a lovely, well-restored medieval village with narrow streets and the lovely faded pastel coloured buildings so characteristic of this area. To add to the charm, and just for fun said the tourist information lady, there were scarecrows ‘hanging’ about all over the place. These were dressed up, some comically, some prettily and made excellent focal points for photos. Lunch today was quiche and mille-feuille from the ... read more

Title of this blog sounds as if I’m about to burst into song. Just might, as it is so nice to see the sun and have a blue sky again after a full week of chilly, cloudy and rainy days. No blog for yesterday (7th June) as we did nothing at all except laze about, reading and enjoying this pleasant little campsite right on the beach. Today the weather has definitely calmed down to a much more summery feel and we woke to a bright blue sky. Scooter at the ready we set off for a ride along the Corniche d’Esterel, a dramatic drive. Didn’t get far at first attempt, just to campsite entrance in fact, when I stopped to clean my glasses under my helmet visor and realised I hadn’t put them on. Doh. Returned ... read more

Rained all night but stopped when we got up so optimistically dressed in suntop and shorts. Soon added a cardigan. Collected the bread from reception and had breakfast just as the rain started again. Got my book and went back to bed in disgust! Fortunate that Bob woke me after I had snoozed off as the quilt was getting rained on from the half open rooflight. He woke me to suggest we moved on. What a great idea. Packed everything away, paid up and left. Noticed most others were leaving too – they were all windsurfers and rather obvious that not much wind surfing was going to be done today. As we drove the weather steadily improved and by late lunch time we had some blue in the sky and even saw a thermometer on a ... read more

Wonderful. When we woke we could see patches of blue in the sky above our heads, first we had seen in 4 days. Had a lovely ride out on the scooter, south down the lake to the bottom and then heading up the other, the East side. Stopped several times just to admire the lovely clear turquoise water of the lake and wonder why the fishermen were standing fishing when however hard we try we have totally failed to spot any sort of fish in the water. Ducks cruise past every now and then and we think this must be a pretty good lake on which to be a duck especially on a day like today with the sun shining brighter and brighter and the sky turning from grey to white to beautiful blue. Just the ... read more