Another cracking hot day had the whole hotel up early for a Sunday morning breakfast in the garden. Our plan originally was to head back to the coast today Marseilles, St Tropez, perhaps even Grasse. The more we're here to more we're wanting to soak up the sandy taupe vistas of Provence.Addicted to the Provence markets, we were searching for one again in a little town nearby today. Not knowing exactly where it was meant we were exploring a tiny hillside ...

It climbed to 38c today, I know because Gab was giving us updates every time we paused to draw breath. Shattered from our massive drive yesterday, we almost missed breakfast arriving just in time to upset the staff who were convinced the ordeal was over for another day. Fed we headed slowly to the town centre. We stopped for refreshments every 3-5 minutes - Merde il fait chaud! We went looking for the produce markets - blessed as we were it was way beyond our e...

Last nights email about our returned package in Rapallo saw us head all the way back to Italia for breakfast, pick up the parcel, debate bureaucracy at the poste, then back to Cannes in time for lunch. Well a late lunch. It is stinking hot summer her, Cannes is the first beach we've seen with white sand looked ohh so inviting.  Last night was the award ceremony for the Creative Awards, there were still award winner snapping themselves on the red carpet of t...

With over 3000 years in history, thousands of restaurants, hundreds of galleries and at least 15 odd museums you could spend a day in the pull to spend your day in the culture of this city is pretty compelling. But then there are bright shinny 33c skies, a crystal azure ocean and the most relaxing beach facilities I've ever seen.  All that is to say we spent the day on the beach dozing on and off all day long. Everyone was in their element, Orangina deliver...

In the late 19th century, Alfred Nobel was chased out of Paris for selling his latest smokeless munitions creation to the Italians (after the French declined the offer.) He toured around a little before settling in San Remo almost at the end of the Italian riviera. His house, perched over the sea, became his final home before he passed away a few years later. In that time he developed the seeds of what would go on to be rayon and other leather and rubber substit...