Day 25 ... highlights discovering the unknown and le Festival D'Art Pyrotechnique Cannes I'll start with the pleasant and then describe the not-so-pleasant of our Day 25 ... The Pleasant: Hangin' @ the Beach & "Festival Pyrotechnique Cannes" - a.k.a. kick-ass Fireworks Show We didn't get to the beach until around 14h30 due to issues with the "Not-so-Pleasant" [see below] but it was plenty of time for Sabine to get her feet wet, build sand structures, make...

Day 24 ... highlights ... hmmmmmm ... not really much to Blog about today, we were in transit mode for the better part of the day and arrived in Cannes around supper time. ... the beautiful condo we were to occupy had plumbing issues and they had to place us in what is described as an "upgrade" ... not even close!!! Needless to say the property management company Azure Online ended up with five emails from me last night as this truly is not an upgrade ......

Day 23 ... highlights Paris Catacombs and sitting "on deck" ... today is our last full day in Paris and we spent some of it waiting in line, some of it underground, and some of it observing lifeforms ... Catacombs The Paris Catacombs is an ossuary that houses the bones of approximately 6 million human remains ... some facts and personal observations pour vous: Paris cemetaries were too full and becoming public health concerns and in 1785 State Council decre...

Day 22 ... highlights more meanderings in Paris ... once again will be sparse on the Blog - we continue to see the sights going to some of the major highlights in Paris - and still outside as again it was a beautiful, sunny, blue sky day here today ... ... this is a crazy time of year in Europe in general because everyone is on vacation trying to see the same things ... we are battling a lot of crowds but it's all good - nice to be doing it here, it's part...

Day 21 ... highlights in and around Paris ... today's Blog will be a little on the sparse side ... we did the Hop-on / Hop-off attractions thing in central Paris beginning around 16h00. We had planned to do museums today but it was such a beautiful day it was decided we'd check out the city instead. Spent a bit of time on the Champs d'Elysee but didn't really purchase anything - other then finding a Marks & Spencer store [British] and purchasing supper (su...