Day 5 - Living it up in Cannes After a 90 minute planning session the night before - Jayne and I decided that getting to St Tropez was going to be too difficult and settled on catching a bus to Cannes. France has an awesome bus timetable online with maps showing where the bus stops are and times buses run on various days - only issue is it is all in French. Apparently from Seillans on a Saturday there is really only one time you can catch the bus to and from can...

Day 4 - Smelling Beautiful in Grasse It was Hana's last day with us before her work conference so she planned a wonderful day for us before we dropped her off to her new hotel. First up was perfume making in Grasse. The road to get there was again a bit scary -not on the highway but on a lot of back windy roads. We decided to ignore the GPS and follow the signs to the perfumery called Galimard and it turns out the perfume workshops were not held there but somewh...

Day 3 - Fancy in Fayence We headed to Fayence to go to the markets - we were hoping that they were better than the ones at Seillans, as the town is bigger. We weren't disappointed. There were stalls with all different types of cheese, cold meats, fruit, jewellery, clothes and dips and olives. We went a bit crazy and bought a heap of things for our pre lunch meal. One of the shop owners loved us and let us try a whole heap of food from his store for free. It was ...

Day 2 - We rule France So I must have jet lag as I woke up at 630 in the morning! We had an exciting morning around the house with Jayne managing to lock herself in the bathroom, while Hana saved me from eating cream cheese for breakfast (I thought it was yoghurt in the super market), and Jayne spat out her tea - because apparently green tea in France has lemon in it (Jayne wants to let it be known she is outraged at this). We then went for a leisurely walk into...

Day 1 - The arrival After 24+ hours of travel I finally made it to Nice. My travel was fairly uneventful -that is until I met Jayne at the Nice airport. Jayne arrived at Nice a couple of hours before me and went and picked up the car we hired and met me at my terminal. We then headed up to the parking lot where Jayne unsuccessfully tried to start the car and couldn't find the hand break. I had to go and get a car attendant and explain the car wouldn't start - he...