After spending a morning at a beautiful (public, yes we managed to find one!) beach in Cannes, we drove on to Nice. One piece of advice when arriving in Nice, do not try to drive into the city centre on a hot afternoon; park outside and get the train or bus or you may face a meltdown like we did. Daniel lost it after an hour of circling around the city with no parking spaces for any vehicle over 1.9m high. Having resolved to leave, we lucked upon a tight little s...

Arrived in Cannes: trendy, chic, not as pretentious as you might think then again the film festival wasn't in town but rather a yacht expo, so plenty of rich little beasties around. The boulevards lining the beach are pretty much crammed with hotels and underneath with every designer name shop you could imagine. the beaches are good but often private so you have to go a little further out of town. It has a good vibe this place but it would have an even better ...

Spent most of the day driving today, arrived in France and headed for the beach. We always seem to try to find a park at dusk and at that point there was nowhere nice in sight, we decided to go to a campsite for safety reasons as the roads were so busy we risked getting rammed by another van/car/high speed motorbike in the middle of the night.

Arrived in Biarritz, Olivier and Marina made us very welcome, dinner at their house with some French wine and traditional Basque food. First waves were finally encountered in Biarritz which come through on Wednesday after a bit of a nasty storm. Hooked up with Olivier and his lovely girlfriend Marina, (thanks Big Daddy) for 3 days in Biarittz. The guys made sure that we were well entertained, fed and showed us around the lovely town of Biarittz as well as making...

Bit of a false start today checking out a few different beaches before settling on the right one for us. Word of advice for anyone heading along this coast stay away from Sainte Girons Plage. OK it is not a Blackpool, but still bad enough. Lots of screaming kids, few Frogus Chavus colonies on the beach, if you can find a speck of sand to sit on that is not taken up. Out of control really, dipped in the ocean (hygiene purposes) and got back in the Nad and kept hea...