Monday 22nd August We had breakfast out on the terrace this morning and afterwards caught the local bus into Antibes. It was already hot and we suspected that it would only get worse. We went to the Information Centre and got a map and what else to do whilst we are here. The English girl at the Information Centre was working here for her Varsity holidays and was due to start back in 4 weeks time. We went down the mall and settled for a place to have coffee near...

Monday 22nd August We had breakfast out on the terrace this morning and afterwards caught the local bus into Antibes. It was already hot and we suspected that it would only get worse. We went to the Information Centre and got a map and what else to do whilst we are here. The English girl at the Information Centre was working here for her Varsity holidays and was due to start back in 4 weeks time. We went down the mall and settled for a place to have coffee near...

Sunday 21st August We got up early and had breakfast – whatever was in the fridge?? I went and got the car and parked it at the end of the street ready to pack up and go. Jannie had most of the stuff that we are carting around ready so I started to lug it down to the car. Monica arrived and went through a few things with us and had a look at the map and the AA instructions that we had – “stupeed” she said and then thought that we were offended and she wa...

Friday 19th August We were late rising this morning as we had nothing planned. Rang a few people back in NZ and caught up with Mum and Jannie spoke with Col. Stu and Graeme weren’t home but left messages. Had the usual breakfast and decide to walk right round the outskirts of the village. Again it was hot already and we managed to make it all the way back to the centre of town and sat down on the sidewalk chairs and had a coffee as per usual. We had to get som...

Thursday 18th August We opened up the laptop over breakfast and received a lot of emails from back home. It’s great to hear from you all and doesn’t feel like we are that far away at all. We got the 9.10am bus to go to Nimes and the trip took about 35 minutes. We left Uzes in bright sunshine and a temperature of 23 degrees but we hadn’t gone too far out of town and we ran into a thick bank of fog where at times we couldn’t see very far at all. But by th...