Port at Villa Franche-sur-mer

Ville Franche-sur-mer

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May 26th 2008
Went back into France today, Ken (our GPS) took a detour around Monarco but that was for the best, the Grand prix was on the weekend so it would have been chaos. Nice would also be really busy as the film festival was on so we stopped at Ville Franche-sur-mur. It was quite nice but being a Monday it was a little too quiet. Most of the shops were shut and it was a drizzly day. We wandered around th ... read more

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