Left the flat early ( it is rented from today) to drive along the coast to Le Lavandou where we have a hotel for a couple of nights. The hotel is in St Clair just east of the main town with a very nice beach.
Took a walk along the coast to the main town where we had a spot of lunch and a bit of beach.
Went to Chez Regis on St Clair beach for dinner .
Went to the airport to pick up a car we had hired for a few days. Went off to Villefranche and had a couple of hours on the beach.
Drove up to La Turbie for the view before returning to Nice to pack.
Walked up to Mont Boron in the morning, our usual walk,nice weather not too hot.
Left early for our dinner date with Ron and Ingrid so killed some time with a beer stop at St Paul de Vence.
Nice dinner all prepared by Ron. All dishes had a striped theme to commemorate 125 years of the British and Irish Lions, Ron donning a replica rugby shirt.
Sunny day unlike yesterday when we had thunder and rain
Went to L’univers for lunch with Chris and Martin
Having spent a couple of days staying with Martin and Chris, a walk up Mont Boron and a walk from Grasse to Chateauneuf with Richard and Joelle, M&C, Liz, we moved across the Port into our apartment which was vacated by our holiday tenant today. All well with the apartment.
Club Med 2 leaving port
Arrived in Nice this morning and went straight to M&C’s as we can’t get into our flat until Sunday 2nd. Walk along the prom in the afternoon and through the annual Italian food fayre.
Day after Holly’s wedding and staying with C&N . Sunny but cool day and went to Hillier’s Gardens at Braishfield . All the rhododendrons and azaleas were in fill bloom and very beautiful. Lovely gardens to visit.
Bought a painting by Barry Fry
Tink and Den came for dinner in the evening
Art in the Park exhibition
Left Centre Parcs early morning to travel to Hampshire for Holly’s wedding. Arrived at Nige and Carly’s at about 10 am.
Quick turnaround and off to the 1.00pm wedding at Winchester’s St Cross church.
Lovely service but rubbish weather so no real photo opportunities outside the church.
Straight to the reception venue of the Clock Barn outside Winchester.
Great reception and taxied hope at 11pm.
Last day at Centre Parcs
Jamie and Steff went off site early for their horse riding adventure
Irene went to have her nails all tarted up for 2 hours in the morning.
Gym in the afternoon and another badminton session whilst all the ladies spent three hours in the Spa pampering themselves.
Ate out in the evening at the Indian restaurant. Nice meal.
This little chappie was munching away right outside our back door
Jamie had his Falcon adventure early morning where all the kids were allowed to handle some of the birds and instructed about the various types of birds of prey. Parents looked on and learnt something as well.
Canoeing in the afternoon then gym and the pool again
Spotted a beautiful red deer grazing in the wood at the rear of the lodge
Walks around the estate in the morning then more gym for Me and Er.
Josh and me braved the “Aerial Adventure” and the zip wire across the lake at the end.
Ice creams and coffee all round before more badminton and squash for Brad and Kelvin.
Josh and Jamie had their Aqua Jets session first thing for 30 minutes and we all spent the next couple of hours negotiating the rapids, slides, hot tubs, cold dunk pool and the waves.
Badminton in the afternoon and a BBQ in the evening
Getting tired after all this activity
Gladiator Challenge for Josh today pm and Tai Chi for Irene.
Josh was the best of the bunch and Irene came back worn out! (All the stretching)
Moorhen nest near the bird hide
Silly Billy’s around gym circuit
Pancakes for lunch at the “Pancake House” . JP in his photogenic mood. Little poser.
Off on the bikes in the morning to explore some more and found our way around all the facilities.
Bradley broke the gears on his bike and had to walk it back to the lodge
Bowling on Saturday evening , Kelvin won
Left home for a week’s adventure at Centre Parcs with Brad,Nat, boys, Jacob, Kelvin and Steff
Arrived at our lodge at 2.00 pm and spent the afternoon exploring
