We woke with the attitude of lets get our bikes today and see how things go, our hosts have guests departing and more arriving for their holiday home rental. They don't need us as they have two daughters who work cleaning and getting the house ready. So... why not off we go to Decathlon a big sport shop that has bikes, well not the bikes for us they were cheap bikes and Pascal said no way am I riding one of those for 600km's it will just fall apart.  S...

Ohlala I see I see the fields of Lavender and the smell is incredible. Rows and rows just as imagined only better as you get the scent, with the car windows down whizzing through the countryside each corner another vista to enjoy. We are on a French high – doing what we have dreamed of. The French hill town of Moustiers Saint Maries was a lovely stop after driving up through the Verdon where canoying and climbing is popular and around Lake Saint Croix....

Up and atom we hit the road, waving goodbye to our crazy Italio friends. The train took us to Nice Airport where we picked up our brand new Peugeot 2008 – what a car fantastic, I even like the colour. We decided on no big motorways, this might have been a mistake 1st up leaving Nice, the traffic was horrendous as it took us about 1 hour to go 30km's and a wrong turn we ended up driving through the centre of Cannes – C'est la vie. Pascal was...

Italy is a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach - A fantastic time with a highlight of meeting some of the Ligurian people, visiting his market garden and sharing a meal & vine with them.

We had a dinner party last night, the vino was flowing the food was consumed and it was nonstop laughing with the Italian friends of Sue and the two southern kiwi girls from Dunedin & Clyde staying through the www.workaway.com programme. The Italians really know how to laugh and live in the moment, no serious topics discussed it was all stupid stuff and teasing each other.  It really was a local experience high in the hills sitting by the outdoor oven under the...