Saturday continued Pat cooked and prepared our purchases from this morning. Chicken with a sauce and some pasta. Two chocolate cakes for desserts. We have decided that, we would like to still be in the area for a while, the weather being great has a lot to do with it, of course. So, our plan for the moment is to travel to Nice, we have a night booked in the Premiere Classe, tomorrow night. Along the way, we will pass Cannes and Antibes, and a place called Villeneuve Loubet Plage, where we have information, that there are a number of Holiday [View Full Entry]

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Sunday Evening About five o'clock ish we decided to go for a walk and find some dinner. We walked along the Nice promenade, Florida Beach and everyone else was also out promenading. The runners, the cyclists, the skaters, the dog walkers and the nosey people (us). We walked for well over an hour on this stretch of beach and eventually found a restaurant to our liking, La Cascade, an Italian food place, Pat had a spaghetti carbonara, and I had a Pizza, with tomato, onions, cheese and olives. Very nice. We hiked back at quite a pace and got back about [View Full Entry]

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Saturday, 18th October, 2008 The plan for today is to complete the part of the loop, that we didn't complete today. The day wasn't quite as nice as yesterday, but still lovely. We started at the supermarket to get our lunch and dinner. Then headed clockwise on our loop, through Saint Tropez and south down the coast, then back due north to the apartment. We stopped off at the Pampelonne beach and saw the Club 55, where apparently the celebs go. Didn't seem a big deal, but we only saw the outside. The wind was coming straight in off the sea, [View Full Entry]

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Thursday continued We had a peaceful evening sat outside, 20°C, a lovely balmy evening again. Pat cooked some pasta and mince beef with a basquaise sauce. Grapes and biscuits for dessert. Friday 17th October, 2008 The plan for today, is to drive in a loop from here westwards, popping to the supermarket first, the road will take us initially inland, then round the coast to see the pampelonne beach where all the celebrities hang out at the private beaches, then up to St Tropez and back to the apartment. Swimming costumes packed just in case! We headed off eventually late morning [View Full Entry]

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Tuesday 14th October, 2008 I have received an email from the owner of the shop in Ypres, The British Grenadier Bookshop, who very kindly said he would try to find out further information about the headstamp on the Trench Art, that I was given, from his reference books. “Here is what the book says... 8mm Lebel ART-D case made in the 3rd quarter of 19?? (you crossed out the number on the right side at the 3 o'clock position) by Atelier de fabrication de Vincennes. Metal case by Compagnie Francais des Metauz, Serifontaine.” The number at the 3 o'clock position is [View Full Entry]

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Thursday 16th October, 2008. The plan for today, a walk. We decided that we would try to stay out of the car today, if we could. A lazy morning started the day and I managed to get access to the internet, and caught up with publishing the blog and some email correspondence. Spotted a spiders web, sparkling in the sunshine and tried to photograph it. Eventually we set off for a walk in the general direction of Cogolin Town. We started by walking around the back of the apartment complex to see what there was of the pine forest. But after [View Full Entry]

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Sunday night continued On our return to the room, we conducted some further internet surfing, to try and find some rented holiday accommodation in the area. We found about five sites we liked, dotted all around the place, in a website called, Owners Direct. We sent a message to each of the five of them asking if they had availability for a few days. Later on we received a message back from owners who have a place not far from St Tropez, and we went for it, should confirm details later today. The plan for today is to leave Avignon and [View Full Entry]

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Sunday 12 October, 2008 The plan for today was to look around Avignon. We had a bit of a lay-in and finally got moving about 1130. Shorts and T-Shirt weather again. The traffic compared to yesterday was very light. We initially headed for the park & ride, which we did find this time, but it seemed empty. It also had some travelling people and a circus on the site, so I wasn't going to leave the car there. We headed back into the centre and found the Oratorie underground car park again. One thing I keep forgetting to mention, in these [View Full Entry]

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Saturday, 11th October, 2008. The plan for today is Les Tourettes / Montelimar to Avignon, nothing in particular planned for the actual journey, which is probably about 90 kilometers. We booked ourselves in the Premiere Classe Avignon Nord, for Saturday and Sunday nights, so we can explore Avignon and the Provence region. We left about 1030, the initial drive was just a steady one, along mainly dual and single carriageways. We stopped at a Carrefour supermarket, for our usual picnic lunch and picked up a couple of other supplies, that we were getting low on. We managed to sit outsi [View Full Entry]

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Wednesday night This Premiere Classe has been refurbished recently, but the rooms are bigger and the bathroom has a shower with a bath to collect the water. Through preference I love to soak in the bath, so with a little ingenuity, because there was no plug, I managed to have a bath, my first for two weeks. We went next door to the Campanille for dinner, pasta chicken and chicken with a mushroom source, and two buffet desserts. Good food, very tasty. Still raining. Thursday, 9th October, 2008. Grey, but dry out. Plan for today, from Macon to Born En Bresse/ [View Full Entry]

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