We have made the best of our last few days in the South of France. Yesterday we drove to Frejus to go to Aqualand, a huge water park with lots of pools and water slides. Matthew and Oliver had a ball on the children's slides and Matthew was very keen to try out the big slides. Like everything in France in summer the queues were as impressive as the slides, but we did manage to find some slides which were open to children over 1 meter tall and without huge waitin...

Today we decided to take a day trip to the Verdon Gorge. The gorge formed by the Verdon river is also called "the Grand Canyon of Verdon" and it really an impressive place to visit. Although only 60 or 70 km from campsite the drive takes over an hour and a half each way, partly because the first part of the trip is on the infamous coast road which is wall to wall traffic and then at the other end the road is full of camper vans driving slowly along the windy wall...

Today we spent a leisurely day enjoying all the facilities that the Esterel caravan park has to offer. Matthew wanted to go back to the kids club to make some more friends, and Ollie decided he wanted to spend time with Dad at the pool. I took a long walk through the Esterel Mountain park which is right outside the gate to the park, then spent a frustrating hour trying to get onto the parks wifi network before realizing that it just doesn't work. Although the re...

Today was our first full day in our caravan park near Saint Raphael on the Cote D'Azure. Yesterday was a long day of driving. We set off from Saint Maurin just after 9am and we arrived at our destination around 7pm. We arrived in time to have a quick swim in the jungle themed toddler pool and watch the circus which was setting up for a performance in the playground. After dinner Matthew and Ilana wandered through the site looking at all the great things to do. ...