Toulon

Ignoring politics for now - it's sort of taken over my life this week, for obvious reasons - we've been doing some exploring over the weekend. On Saturday we went to Toulon - the weather forecast was ok, so we decided to go for it.

The weather forecast lied, obviously. But Toulon is a pretty town on the Mediterranean coast, between here and Marseille (I didn't know this before I went there) - it's much more a place you would live than for tourists to visit, which made me like it instantly! There is a Zoo and cable cars, so we're going to go back in the summer when the weather's guaranteed to be good!

Below, as usual, are pictures - note the colour of the sky in the last few pics. It rained shortly after taking those photos. Heavily.

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Productivity continued

I amaze even myself, sometimes...

Instead of going back to bed, I had breakfast on the balcony, and then finished the below pendant.

Then we walked to Nice, via the coastal path - incredibly pretty, but best not attempted in flipflops. Learn from my mistakes, people of the internet. We finished our walk at Kookaburra in Nice, which is a fantastic Australian pub, and Nick, the guy who runs it, is brilliant. We go there when we've got spare money, the food is fabulous - today we had kangaroo pie. The chef deserves a medal, because it rocked.

Kangaroo pie:

Photos from the coastal path:

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Saint Raphael and Frejus

Yesterday was a national holiday in Monaco, so we were both at home. It was sunny (as you can see from the photos) and warm and I actually didn't feel like I was dying, for the first time in ages, so we decided to go exploring - and went to Saint Raphael, along the coast towards Marseille.

Photos of sunshine
Upside down boat, now colonised by seagulls:

That part of the coast is beautiful - huge red rocks and cliffs, as you can see a bit in this photo from the train window.

Saint Raphael is nothing special - the beach is nice, though, and the church is pretty from the outside.

Church:

Beach:

The old town in Saint Raphael was... limited (I was feeling ill again by that point, though, so I might be doing it a disservice. Or we might have missed bits.) There's a museum that might be worth going to, we walked past it. That was about it.

Frejus was pretty, but small. It's noted for its Roman ruins - we got as far as the amphitheatre, which is being re-built, and got bored and went home. The church is prettier on the outside than the inside, but it is pretty.

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