I woke up with a pigeon at the end of the bed, thankfully he knew the way out, all I needed to do was flick my leg. Of course I was up hours before anyone else - the heat had me up and functioning while everyone else remained liquified on their mattresses the floor strewn with bed clothes and pajamas discarded through the night. The room didn't get below 30c over night. We didn't leave the room until 11, the street already melting we thought the metro wou...

With a 7hr drive to Paris in front of us we were up and on the road impressively early given the late night in town the night before. We hit Lyon just before 10 and headed for Les Halles for brunch. Whilst we were clever enough to find the markets, I didn't think to see when they were open - with only a few stalls operating everyone managed to find their something special.With the clock burning we decided we'd better keep moving to Paris. Lyon looks far ...

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...