The Journey Home Via Nice....

What an ending to a great holiday. Unfortunately Xenia was ill all day, too much sun in St Tropez I think, as she hadn't been quite right since then, so she had a completely miserable day and dreadful journey home but we had to work round it. We shut up the house, threw all the pool noodles and air-beds over the fence to the neighbouring family and drove to Nice old town for lunch and to spend a few hours but it actually turned into finding some air conditioning for Xenia to sit in while some of us had lunch then out to the air conditioned airport. Nathan and Teri went to a board games shop and found some treasure that they had been looking for.We found a place called 'L'Atmosphere' that did great food. I would love to go there again with a well Xenia so we could enjoy it more than we were able to with the circumstances as they were. Oh well such is family life sometimes!  The flight was ok and we parted with Nathan and Teri at Heathrow airport as they headed home to East London. Although we all wished we were still in France it was good to get the journey over with. I don't enjoy flying anymore and Xenia certainly didn't today. Bed never looked so cosy!

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Balmy Evenings in St Raphael.....

There is a lot of construction going on in the harbour this year but we were still able to have some great evenings in St Raphael. The evening market doesn't start until 9pm for future reference, I had thought that they set up a little earlier than that. We found great ice-cream, great candy-floss (note in the photo it is bigger than Teri's head!), delicious food. I was only sad that we were there too early for the amazing jazz festival that was going to start as we left. 

The Circus comes to town...

Well, we thought we were going for a quiet dinner at the marina at St Raphael but as we drove into the car park we were almost headlong into a variety of animals none of which we particularly wanted to park next to!!!! There was a little, tiny circus in another part of the car park and the animals were tethered randomly on the side of the road! We did have a lovely dinner but when we came out again the animals were gone I have NO idea how they fitted in that tiny circus tent!!!!! Also what trick does a bull do????? and a llama?????

An assortment of random animals

A juggling bull????

Camel on a trapeze????

I guess this camel was camera shy!

As were the Llama clowns!

Camel on a trampoline????

A boat trip to St Tropez...

Even saying the name 'St Tropez' sounds exotic, to me anyway. We took a boat from St Raphael which was fairly busy and arrived at lunch time as did everyone else so it was a little hard to find somewhere to eat at first. On reflection we could have done a little better but we were so disappointed to find that the place we had been planning to eat at was now a perfume shop that we just wanted to find somewhere quickly. It was near 40 degrees again among the buildings, the air conditioning in the expensive designer shops was nice as we walked by!!!! It is such a beautiful town and I would love to visit again when it was less crowded and a little cooler.

Approaching St Tropez

Eating Out at Les Arcades....

We love eating out in France and although we have occasionally over the years  had very indifferent food we have also found great places to eat. St Raphael Marina has many wonderful restuarants including Les Arcades which also has our favourite waiter. All the ladies usually get a rose presented to them, at some point, a man with an accordian will play for you and the waiter will even dance with you....if your name is Teri! Highly recommended.

......en famille...

Best starter

Best main

Best dessert!!!!!

Best waiter

Captain Nemo...

 No trip to Agay would be complete without an underwater adventure on the Captain Nemo. We were the only family on board for this voyage so once we had sailed out to the reef and gone down into the glass bottomed part of the boat they drove back with us still underwater, usually you have to go back upstairs to sail back. It's not exactly the Caribbean in the fish department but it's still fun and tradition now that we go.



A model of the Captain Nemo in St Raphael ticket office