Thursday 10th May

Saturday 5^th May we travelled via Bandol to La Tour Fondue. Bandol beach was really nice so we parked Blossom and had some lunch. There was a boat show on along the side of the Marina so we had a wee stroll round that and then headed for La Tour Fondue which is south of Hyeres on a peninsula near Giens. The site is right next to the harbour where the ferry runs to the Iles D’Hyeres . We were going to take the ferry on Sunday but remembered that the moto GP was on at 2pm. So we went in search of a television to watch the GP but couldn’t find one. We walked down to the ferry terminal to see how much the trips were and once we saw the price we changed our minds.

We moved on on Sunday morning towards St Tropez and headed for a site at Les Mures which is on St Tropez bay but opposite St Tropez itself. As you can imagine they don’t want us undesirables parking to close to the beautiful people, we were about 12 km round the bay. Really nice site right on the beach, on the sand. The restaurant on the site put the telly on for us to watch the GP. The camping site next to ours is holding a Harley Davidson convention which starts on Thursday and they are expecting around 15,000 bikes to arrive between now and then. The site we are on already has a few Harleys on it and there is an abundance of open piped Harleys fleeing about. In the afternoon Kev went out for a cycle round the bay to St Tropez and said it wasn’t that far after all so we have decide to go on Tuesday as that’s the day of the local market.

Monday was another beautiful day so we lazed about watching the boats in the bay go by. In the afternoon we cycled to the hillside village of Grimaud. It was a bit of a cycle as you can imagine the clue is in hillside village. Got there eventually. We climbed up to the ruined castle at the top of the hill from where the views were spectacular, you could see for miles all around.

Tuesday we cycled to St Tropez, there was a cycle track all the way there and it was mostly on the flat but it still took me about 45 mins to get there but only 25mins to get back. Stopped at the market, not sure how the people here can afford to eat as everything is so expensive. After leaving the market we went down to the harbour in search of celebs but didn’t see any! Must have heard we were coming and stayed in for the day. We did a bit of people watching from one of the harbour side cafes which proved to be a bit pricey, 12.50 for a coffee and small beer. Well, we were in St Tropez after all.

On Wednesday we left and drove to Antibes, although it was only about 80km away from where we were it took about 2 hrs and it was quite a difficult drive for Kev. Today, Thursday we took the TGV train to Monte Carlo where we are sitting in a café using the free WiFi, although we have had to buy 2 coffees, don’t know yet how much that is. Tomorrow we are heading for Nice and then back to Cannes on Saturday then Italy here we come.

TTFN