We knew it was going to be a long drive but it didn't start well with a diversion through the Black Forest before breakfast making us wish (not for the first time this trip) that we understood German a lot better... Eventually on the motorway we ticked off the miles and arrived to one final evening of countryside views in Bob before the tunnel tomorrow.

Another day on the beach in St Tropez.... it was lovely before breakfast - M even managed a morning explore in her PJs before the clouds rolled in and the wind picked up and we bunkered down for some school in the morning before deciding to ignore the weather and enjoy our beautiful beach (by this point we did have it entirely to ourselves) and firing up the bbq for the first time in 2017. After lunch we all headed off on separate treasure hunts, devised by the ...

As we couldn't find the beach in Frejus and it was pebbbles in Nice we decided to go find a nice beach and so headed down to Pampelonne beach in St Tropez where we have parked up about 10m from the beach - wahey! The sand is white, the sea is blue and the sun was even shining when we arrived so what else could the children do but head straight for the water.... which was actually really quite cold! We spent the afternoon playing on the beach and then stayed th...

Off to Nice for the Carnaval today. We had a mad dash from the bus to the train only to find the train was delayed... and then delayed all the way to Nice... but luckily that gave us time to get the day's schoolwork done before arriving. So, we headed first to the shops, then the Jardin du Paillon for (possibly?) the best playground so far this trip, then down to the beach where we were slightly surprised to see it was as pebbly as Brighton so after some stone ...

We started the day in the wonderful sunshine of Avignon but having decided to drive on today we arrived in Frejus mid-afternoon. Check-in at the campsite (including a ride in a golf buggy) took forever but eventually we were able to get the bus into town to check out the beach.... except we couldn't find it and we got tired of walking down smelly roads trying to find it so we gave up and went for beer and hot chocolate instead before returning to Bob. I hear ...