Tag Archives: Côte d’Azur

Le Tour de France – Part One, Côte D’Azur
Perhaps the toughest sporting event of them all, Le Tour de France, is now into its closing few days. Those precipitous mountain roads of the Alps & Pyrenees that they climb make me wince just thinking about them. Hopefully the sport is now totally drug free meaning the event truly is the ultimate test for a […]

Le Tour de France – Stage One
Perhaps the toughest sporting event of them all gets underway today starting in Utrecht in the Netherlands, but soon starts to follow its more traditional routes in France. Those precipitous mountain roads of the Alps & Pyrenees that they climb make me wince just thinking about them. Hopefully the sport is now totally drug free […]

France Part One – Nice to Aix-en-Provence
I had heard of the beauty of Provence of course, I just never realised just how damned fabulous it was until I witnessed it for myself this June. We flew to Nice on easyJet and stayed three days with a good friend of ours called Anna in her Cannes apartment, before picking up our Fiat […]