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For about 5 hours on Monday, the day we left, we walked through the gardens and had lunch here in perfect weather, with friends Ann and John. Although the end of the blooming season, the gardens still retained a lot of interest and included the hothouses and other specialist all-
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On our last full day we met for brunch with Susie and Ian, who own the cottage at Hope Cove. Then we visited friends Ann and John in Surrey, in better weather than yesterday and went blackberrying, for our pudding this evening. I also took a pic of the official
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Temperature has dropped dramatically to below 15 Deg C at best.
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Mary is in Worcester with her college 50 year reunion, until today. Alison and family are back in Sydney, as is Michael. Caryl and Will are still in Wales--or York On Sunday we plan to visit friends in Ashtead, Surrey and Monday we fly out in the evening, with
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Outside our hotel at the port, at the table and one view of the square where our restaurant was located.
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Today, our last full day in France, we said good bye to our apartment but not before we saw one of the largest yachts in the world, come into the harbour--the Club Med 2. We took the train to Marseille, checked into the Sofitel, walked around the port then
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This yacht is moored at the quay near us. It cost $100,000,000 and is owned by a Kuwati oil magnate who was probably the person we saw on it last night. The yacht and helicopter can be hired for a mere $425,000 a week!
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We took a train to Antibes, coastal playground of French middle class familes and walked across the peninsula to Juan le Pin--more classy still, although the toilets were terrible and none of the beach showers worked. Bit of a disappointment, really. Food in shops was good, though. Some expensive
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This morning we walked along the now infamous Promenade des Anglais as far as the memorials to the 80-90 killed in the carnage of July 14th. Later we went to the markets,always colourful and filed with spice scents and I took some shop fronts and street scenes as
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We visited Monaco by tram and train and returned via a beach-Villefranche, for a swim. Monaco is a weird place, stolen from the Phoenicians in 1327 by a cunning monk, Grimaldi, (pic of stature), whose family have owned it ever since and become 'respectable'. It is clearly
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Blessed with great weather, we toured the old part of Nice then went to the beach and later we visited the ancient buildings on the hill behind us. It was started by the Celtic Liguans, which no-one had heard of and Craig thought sounded like a vegetable! The first
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Yesterday was mad! All except Jacqui and family departed at 8.30am for the Novotel in Annecy where Alison had booked the next night, to wait for Craig's discharge. We left their bags there. Rush to hospital (Michael had a flight check-in at 11.00am at Geneva)