Left Nice loaded with goodies from our hostess and thunder and lightening from the city. For once the TGV behaved and it was relatively straight forward. Although prior to boarding we were in the wrong queue, mild panic and the TGV was very looooong. Felt like we clocked up half a km there. Reached Paris (13:00hrs) - it was not thought provoking at all, rather non descript. Being the Kiwis we are thought we would find our own way to the hotel as there were cont...

Buoyed with the knowledge that our plan for today had thus far functioned like a well oiled house-brick, we touch down again back in Nice with youthful optimism. Unable to find a bus that goes to Monaco we gleefully skip along the road hand-in-hand to the.............TRAIN STATION! You and we were not disappointed by this folly. We have already noticed that any form of dispensing machine in France is programmed with a perverse sense of humour; couple that with...

'Beam me up Scottie' Kirk & Spock had it easy. Simple plan: from our central location (Nice) head off yin one direction to visit iconic, historic, perfume making town (Grasse). Shop. Return to central location (Nice), head off in opposite direction to another country, Monaco. Sightsee. Easy, straight-forward, no problem. Hee-hee-hee; Yeah Right!! Breakfast was a slow process, as nothing was set up, and our delightful host insisted on making everything fo...

Leaving the Luberon valley and rhe Rhone river from Avignon and now on the TGV to Nice. It gives you a feeling of sweet sorrow as another leaf of our adventure has ended and a new one beginning. We were hoping to catch the TGV early this morning but alas no seats left. Plan B now. We are doing Nice tonight, Grasse tomorrow morning and Monaco mid afternoon. We have sussed out the buses and the late train leaving Monaco tomorrow night. Said our goodbyes yesterday ...

We are partaking in a 4 course meal tonight including the appertif ( fresh pea green chilled soup) and drink drinks drinkees To start at the beginning; we walked thru the villages of Seguret and Gigondas another beautiful village of Provence, cobbled streets, ancient homes, communal wash basins, fountains. We cast our eyes out over strategic vantage points and are greeted with a sea of green grapevines waving at us seeming to carpet the Rhone Valley; the Mount V...