Day 8 - Sanary Sur Mer and Bandol

We have stayed in nicer hotels, but this one had a decent bed, was sorta clean and… well there was no hot water, but there was water! Waking in the night and hearing the sea lapping at the shore was soothing, and you quickly fall back to sleep.

The son has risen over the Mediterranean this morning and revealed itself from the fog that shrouded it yesterday. We are going to grab some food from the patisserie then head over to the tourist office. We're going to see if they can make a reservation at Sanary Sur Mer for us. We figure we'll stay there for a few days. More later.

Well, we're at Sanary sur Mer and it's been a day of discovery. We dicovered that you miss a bunch of things rocketing across France trying to get to the cote d'azur. The other thing we discovered is that we aren't really beach people - even when those beaches are topless. We've been to white rock beach, and that's all this is x 10 pretensiousness. (My spell check says that wasn't a word but who cares). It is a nice place, but after an our you're ready to move on.

We explored the trip and backstreets and then finally went back to our hotel for champagne (which we had in the cooler), instead of 10 Euro ($15) for a champagne cocktail on the promenade. We then went for dinner at the restaurant in the hotel. I can still taste the foie gras with my filet - best ever.

We had a good chat about our expectations of our trip and our lies and dislikes this afternoon over our champagne. A little bit of homesickness is setting in today, and we were both wishing we could be giving Sarah and Aidan their good night hugs and kisses tonight. Trying to see all of France in 2 weeks is as ambitious as trying to see all of Europe in 2 weeks. You will miss most of it, but hopefully your to-do list is smaller for next trip./

Tomorrow is off to Nice!! (and maybe St Tropez on the way) and then a super bendy road North through the Alps. Hopefully Joanna doesn't puke too much…