Departure Campsite: Mare Monti, Sestri Levante, Italy (N 44.26387 E 9.44222)
Destination Campsite: Le Rossignol, Antibes, France (N 43.6063 E 7.11201)
Distance: 164 miles/265 km (today) 1330 miles/2140 km (total)
This is our last day together as a party, as we plan to go our own ways for the rest of the holiday. After a breakfast of boiled egg in a pitta pocket for me and cornflakes for Ali and the kids, we packed down for an early start to Monaco. It was another hot and sweaty morning. The air conditioning which I had serviced on the Bongo just a few weeks ago decided to pack up just before we came away. We are going to suffer for that today.
Simon set off before us, so he could pop into town to pick up some aftersun lotion. We met up with him again at the first services on the motorway along the coast, and followed him through France to Monaco. We thought we had managed to find a couple of parking spaces on the outskirts of Monaco, but a municipal worker informed us we were parked illegally (not sure why) and I went off in the Bongo to find another parking place, leaving Ali behind. She was quite happy sat in Simon's car with fully working air conditioning. I parked in the exotic gardens car park for free and then walked back to Simon's car. Simon then headed off into Monaco with Ellie to find another car park while Ali, James, Matthew, Zoe and I walked down to the harbour in 38C heat ( a glorious, but hot day). We took a number of public elevators to get down and met up with Simon and Ellie by the public swimming pool. For lunch, we bought chips, mozarella sticks, sausages, chicken wings, TexMex and cold drinks at a kiosk in the harbour, costing us around 30 euros. We walked a little around the marina looking at the expensive boats and ended up at the Prince's Palace, where we said goodbye to Simon, Ellie and Matthew. We started on the long, hot, thirsty walk back up to the car.
We picked a site in Antibes from the ACSI campsite guide and made our way there. The campsite (Le Rossignol) was not the most attractive, but functional. Mozzies proved to be a bit of a problem. We walked to a "Proxi" supermarket, which was just a couple of hundred meters away) and picked up some food for our evening meal (cheese pancakes and spaghetti with pesto for the adults and boiled egg in baguette for the kids), eating a couple of Zoom ice lollies each on the way back to the site.
Le Rossignol had a swimming pool and clean facilities.
Destination Campsite: Le Rossignol, Antibes, France (N 43.6063 E 7.11201)
Distance: 164 miles/265 km (today) 1330 miles/2140 km (total)
Simon set off before us, so he could pop into town to pick up some aftersun lotion. We met up with him again at the first services on the motorway along the coast, and followed him through France to Monaco. We thought we had managed to find a couple of parking spaces on the outskirts of Monaco, but a municipal worker informed us we were parked illegally (not sure why) and I went off in the Bongo to find another parking place, leaving Ali behind. She was quite happy sat in Simon's car with fully working air conditioning. I parked in the exotic gardens car park for free and then walked back to Simon's car. Simon then headed off into Monaco with Ellie to find another car park while Ali, James, Matthew, Zoe and I walked down to the harbour in 38C heat ( a glorious, but hot day). We took a number of public elevators to get down and met up with Simon and Ellie by the public swimming pool. For lunch, we bought chips, mozarella sticks, sausages, chicken wings, TexMex and cold drinks at a kiosk in the harbour, costing us around 30 euros. We walked a little around the marina looking at the expensive boats and ended up at the Prince's Palace, where we said goodbye to Simon, Ellie and Matthew. We started on the long, hot, thirsty walk back up to the car.
We picked a site in Antibes from the ACSI campsite guide and made our way there. The campsite (Le Rossignol) was not the most attractive, but functional. Mozzies proved to be a bit of a problem. We walked to a "Proxi" supermarket, which was just a couple of hundred meters away) and picked up some food for our evening meal (cheese pancakes and spaghetti with pesto for the adults and boiled egg in baguette for the kids), eating a couple of Zoom ice lollies each on the way back to the site.
Le Rossignol had a swimming pool and clean facilities.
