A bit more France

Corniche de l'Esterel

I thought it was time to remember a little more of France & our recent holidays. (And my, they seem a long time ago now.)

Our first week we had bad weather a lot of the time. However, we did find one good day to drive along the Corniche de l'Esterel between Frejus & Cannes. As you can see it was fabulous. Here you see why the area is known as the Cote d'Azur. Doesn't that water look a glorious shade of azure?

The real surprise for us, is that the drive from the villa we were staying in to Frejus was through limestone country & thick woods. As you turned along the coast road the rock changed to this amazing ox-blood red. So unexpected. Cap Roux (red cape) is well named after its colour.

Looking at the photo, it is difficult to believe that same evening we decided to dine out. It was throwing it down. It eased sufficiently for us to get inside reasonably dry. We dined to the sound of thunder. By the time we were coming back we were given a show of sheet lightning, with the odd bit of forked lightning thrown in, & a cacophony of rolling drums of thunder. Such a contrast with earlier in the day.