We only brought 1 barrel
After just a 3 hour drive we arrived at our next site for 2 days but instantly felt we can spend a week here. Think postcard / holiday brochure pictures of rolling vineyards and quaint French villages and that’s where we are!
Stu was despatched after set-up to find some local wine – he came back with a bottle of Chablis from the vineyards we overlook – can’t wait to try it!
Forgot last time to share with you that as we left the south of France (admittedly the motorway junction that said left for Barcelona and right for Paris caused a few questions – Stu thought that another few weeks might be pushing his luck with work!) the road hugs the southern Alps and we saw a huge eagle just soaring on the thermals – it seemed to follow us for a couple of miles, the most majestic bird we have ever seen.
FOD:
There are 59 species of eagles.
After a lovely last day and morning (we didn’t leave until lunchtime so the girls had a run around before the 4hr journey) on the beach we set off for Chateau-neuf sur-Isere in the heart of Provence.
As we were sat having our last morning croissants I said to Stu ‘I love the beach, I love the warmth of the sea, I love the food and I love the climate – I just love it down the ‘med’ way…’ Stu said ‘next year I’m taking you to Rochester’.
The new campsite is very pleasant, set amongst peach and olive trees and overlooking a vineyard. As you can see it has a bar and swimming pool – what more does a girl need?
Stu’s off this morning to get his hair cut in the local town – I think everyone reading this can all agree that they don’t think it will go smoothly or as planned. I will put a (probably funny) picture of the results on here tomorrow!
FOD:
The average bottle of wine contains 630 grapes.
We decided to see how the other half live and went for that planned ice-cream in St Trop , that’s what the ‘hip’ people call it. Surprisingly there was not a huge number of cars with extended wing mirrors in the port car park (there actually wasn’t that many with more than 2 seats – Stu said they might go fast but they would be rubbish at towing). The place is exactly how you would expect it, full of expensive plastic toys and plastic people, but that just makes it a great place to watch the world go by, we thoroughly enjoyed it. The big rich people even have lights under their boats which the girls adored as they lit up the sea for some excellent fish spotting. A great place to have an evening promenade but with a bucket of moules at 23E, ice-creams at 4E and 7E for a beer you need to own a super-yacht to afford a holiday there…we retired to our ebay caravan!
PS From the pics you will see that Britannia still rules the waves!
FOD:
The largest super yacht in the world was put to sea this year, Eclipse (168m), is owned by Roman Abromavich. No2 on the list is Dubai (160m), owned by the royal family
FOD:
St Tropez: The town’s name derives from that of an early, semi-legendary martyr named Saint Torpes. His legend states that he was beheaded at Pisa during the reign of Nero, and that his body was placed in a rotten boat with a rooster and a dog. The body landed at the present-day location of the town.
