Our hotel accommodation is in Cagnes-sur-Mer - 15 minutes from Nice. We'd dropped off the campervan at 11am but check in wasn't allowed until 3pm so we left our bags and walked down to the beach. The day was stunning with clear blue sky and people enjoying the water. We chilled out by the beach for a while but with a shopping mall in the vicinity the kids were keen to go shopping. Vietnamese was on the menu for lunch, as we were keen for something a little differ...

We had around 160km to get to our final night's resting place - we travelled through another scenic gorge just as lovely as the others and with not too much traffic. We tried to stop on route and arrange a short horseriding trek on route but it wasn't meant to be. Trying to find a place to empty water and waste before returning the campervan and night over at was harder than we expected. There were lots of camping grounds but most were seasonal, and now closed -...

Today was provence village hopping day - we'd looked at some one day tour itineraries for the region and the villages they visited and thought we'd try that as a diy approach . So we plugged them into our navigation app and headed off. We arrived at the first village and tried to get to the parking area we had identified - the navigation app that up until now had been pretty good, tried to take us under a 2m bridge (the camper van is over 3.2m high). Good thing ...

Another day with the weather not very conducive to outdoor activities, so we decided to visit the Haribo museum before we moved on (lollies for those not familiar with the name!!). It was slightly more informative than expected - we learnt a bit about liquorice production as well as sugar processing as well as the making of jelly type lollies. The kids were delighted with the packets of lollies that we generated during our visit, and Darryl was pleased as he had ...

Our first real patch of bad weather coincided fortunately with our time to move from one region to the next, So for a day of driving through drizzle, rain and the odd clear patch we decided to take a scenic route through a gorge.The weather wasn't too bad in the gorge, apparantly good enough for rock climbing as we saw five climbers partway up the sides of the gorge as we drove through one part. The gorge was stunningly beautiful with tunnels and overhanging bl...