The sun woke us this morning as it rose over the hills to the east and shone directly into our unit. This is a long thin apartment with bedroom at the front door and living space at the balcony end with the view.
After breakfast, we headed for the car park through the heart of this complex, with it's shops and restaurants. At the apex is the pool or rather two heated pools and the hotel itself is beyond the centre to the west.
I don't think I've mentioned that our apartment is on a 9 hole golf course.
Today's objective was to drive along the coast from Agay, where out resort is, to Antibes. When we lived in Germany, Carole and Claude with their son Paul and us spent an Easter holiday in a campground in Antibes, thus the incentive to return to Antibes.
This drive starts with the most picturesque section of the Estelle Massif. This area of the Massif de L'Esterel is dominated with panoramic views featuring the volcanic rocks of porphyry and historically the Roman road Via Aurelia passed through this area.
Our 60km route today took us 2 and 1/2 hours. Now, part of that was the windy slow coastal roads but part was also the number of times we felt obligued to stop and take a picture.
As we made our way along the slow highway, we finally rolled into one of the premier attractions of the area, Pic du Cap Roux. The Germans thought this was a good area too, during WW2, with its 200 degree view of the coastline, and they built gun emplacements here.
From here we passed into the famous film festival town of Cannes. Like Nice, this place has an impressive history with many Brits moving to the area.
At Golfe Juan, we opted for a lunch stop and found a nice marina view restaurant where Claude and I had a fine grilled sea bass, while the girls has salads, Carole smoked salmon and Dawn warm goat cheese.
Then, we finally made our way to Antibes via the road around Cap d'Antibes and none of us really recognized anything. That's what 36 years will do to you. There's a picturesque fort here
but by far the most impresive feature are the multi - and I'm talking multi - million dollar yachts parked here.
Most seem to be staffed with young lithe creatures like the one shown above. We took the autoroute back to Cap d'Esterel and finished the day at the apartment with cards and pizza and maybe some wine.
After breakfast, we headed for the car park through the heart of this complex, with it's shops and restaurants. At the apex is the pool or rather two heated pools and the hotel itself is beyond the centre to the west.
I don't think I've mentioned that our apartment is on a 9 hole golf course.
Today's objective was to drive along the coast from Agay, where out resort is, to Antibes. When we lived in Germany, Carole and Claude with their son Paul and us spent an Easter holiday in a campground in Antibes, thus the incentive to return to Antibes.
This drive starts with the most picturesque section of the Estelle Massif. This area of the Massif de L'Esterel is dominated with panoramic views featuring the volcanic rocks of porphyry and historically the Roman road Via Aurelia passed through this area.
Our 60km route today took us 2 and 1/2 hours. Now, part of that was the windy slow coastal roads but part was also the number of times we felt obligued to stop and take a picture.
As we made our way along the slow highway, we finally rolled into one of the premier attractions of the area, Pic du Cap Roux. The Germans thought this was a good area too, during WW2, with its 200 degree view of the coastline, and they built gun emplacements here.
From here we passed into the famous film festival town of Cannes. Like Nice, this place has an impressive history with many Brits moving to the area.
At Golfe Juan, we opted for a lunch stop and found a nice marina view restaurant where Claude and I had a fine grilled sea bass, while the girls has salads, Carole smoked salmon and Dawn warm goat cheese.
Then, we finally made our way to Antibes via the road around Cap d'Antibes and none of us really recognized anything. That's what 36 years will do to you. There's a picturesque fort here
but by far the most impresive feature are the multi - and I'm talking multi - million dollar yachts parked here.
Most seem to be staffed with young lithe creatures like the one shown above. We took the autoroute back to Cap d'Esterel and finished the day at the apartment with cards and pizza and maybe some wine.
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