Living it up in the French Riviera - Nice To say that Nice was nice would be a complete understatement. Nice was just gorgeous. Our accommodation was in the little town of Antibes, halfway between Cannes and Nice and we were given a day to explore the area. My origional thought was to go to Cannes for a few hours and then head up to Nice for the afternoon. I'm very glad now that I decided to spend all day in Nice as it really was one of the highlights of the...

Pont Du Gard in Provence Enroute to Barcelona, we stopped at Provence, home of the ancient Roman aqueduct. The Pont du Gard was built shortly before the Christian era to allow the aqueduct of Nîmes (which is almost 50 km long) to cross the Gard river. The Roman architects and hydraulic engineers who designed this bridge, which stands almost 50 m high and is on three levels - the longest measuring 275 m - created a technical as well as an artistic masterp...

Wineing it up in the Beaujolis Wine Region On leaving Paris, we headed out to the Beaujolis wine region for 2 nights at a lovely French chateau. After dinner and a party on our first night, we woke the following morning to a gloriously sunny day. We grabbed picnic baskets and hiked up to what was called "The top of the world". This is a scenic place that has spectacular views over the region. The walk up took nearly an hour but on the way, I passed some...

My Second Visit to Paris We left London on the contiki trip at 7am, boarding the ferry at Dover and then continuing over into France by late morning. It was 5pm by the time we reached our contiki sight in Paris, and made me realise how much better it was to travel by Eurostar! The first night we had dinner and then re-boarded the bus for a night time tour of Paris, with our guide, Ali pointing out the famous landmarks. I really enjoyed it as I'd seen at l...

Paris I headed off to Paris with Bec, Kel and Matt. Our adventurous weekend started when we got to the Eurostar check in counter at 6am and found that our tickets hadn't been confirmed by the travel agent and therefore we didn't have the tickets we'd paid for! After forking out another £200 we jumped on a later train and arrived in Paris. The journey on the Eurostar over was really quick and Matt amused me by constantly asking on each tunnel we went through...