The week has flown by and been well spent, in
my humble opinion at least. Most of the week we spent discovering little towns
in Cote d’Azur and may I say WOW WOW WOW. They have been breathtaking and
jaw-dropping just amazing. At first when planning out our week we were like a
day for these 3-4 towns because they were so close to each other by train and the
train went every half an hour but 2 towns a day is the most you can do I think.
Yeah they look tiny and they are but you can get lost in them and not in the
sense of omg I don’t know where I am but in the sense of wow lets go there and
there and then take that street and make that turn etc. So you’re standing in a
street corner hoping you could split yourself into two and take both the left
and right turn so you just wander round just to get a feel of the town and not
looking at the map all the time to know exactly where you are because it
doesn’t matter. You want to take a picture of every view (keep in mind we
visited the coast and a couple of town in the mountains) of the breathtaking
light blue sea, of every beautiful and colourful shutter bordering the windows,
of every building, of every street and so on and so on. But pictures never
capture the beauty the way eyes and the memory does. Later you’ll flick through
the photos and yes, you’ll have some pearls, some pics that are wow but all the
rest are just another picture of another beautiful street, view, building etc
but nothing compared to what your eyes saw in reality.
To give you an idea of what the hell am I
talking about I’ll try to pick out just one! Can I do that? Which one is the
best photo of every town? Keep in mind that I’m not a great photographer either
but I try :P
Mandelieu-La Napoule
We went there for the castle and although it
wasn’t the proper huge one that you think of when someone mentions the word
castle it was still worth going to and the surrounding garden was marvellous.
Gourdon
The tiniest little town almost on top of the
mountain range. Only 3 streets but so worth going to! Had lunch at a restaurant
with a view to the valley – to a girl who comes from a flat country: our highest
point (everyone says it with so much pride in their voice and so do I J ) 318 metres and it’s called the
BIG egg mountain; that view was unbelievable.
Do you see those two? buldings? Yeah that's the village :D
Beforehand when trying to plan where to go we
read some forums etc and everyone said that this town is a must see so
expectations were high. Drumroll. And they were met: little narrow streets
going up and down containing one art gallery after another, little cafes,
everything you could ever ask for when trying to absorb the prettiness of small
French medieval towns. Picturesque everywhere you look.
Villefranche sur mer
Town that Mr. Special picked out, then forgot
about, then remembered again, then didn’t think we had the time to go (I
insisted that we’d make time) and then loved it and talked about going back the
rest of the trip. Underground street!!! Well maybe it isn't actually underground but under buildings? can't remember anymore and forgot to check at the time but yeah on that street you can't see the sky!
Beaulieu sur mer
A 20-minute walk from the previous town – Mr. Special
wanted to take the train at first because it is so far and could be miles away
and blah blah blah but luckily I insisted and got my way because it was a
lovely walk on the promenade! At first we didn’t actually plan on seeing the
town because we wanted to go to the Greece Villa and then take the bus to Eze
but it got too late (by the time we would’ve got there it would’ve been dark),
so we had a nice little stroll on the streets of blublublu (Mr. Special can’t
pronounce the name properly).
Eze
On our third attempt to go there we finally
succeeded :D First time we got off at the train station of Eze but turns
out it’s Eze sur mer and not the actual touristy village everyone wants to go
to – you could get a bus from the station but we thought we wouldn’t have time
that day. The second attempt was when we visited Villefranche and Beaulieu and
wanted to do Eze too but it got too late. So now we were up early and ready to
go and knew where and how to go. And it was worth having its own day :) It had an exotic garden and I've found a likeness to gardens on the mountains so different to the usual gardens that you see in front of you. Also I noticed a Relais & Chateaux hotel which had rooms on the street! Yeah the hotel wasn't just one building - or maybe it was :P but you had streets in the hotel then. And we walked past one room that had the do not disturb sign on the doorknob :D lol wink wink.
Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...
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