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Oct 9, 2009 - Cannes
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Oct 9, 2009 - HIGHLIGHT DAY - Nice - St Paul de Vence - Villefranche sur Mer
After a wrong bus got to Gare Routierre.After a wrong bus got to Gare Routierre....
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Oct 8, 2009 - Avignon to Nice
Early wake up at 5. Nice - stairs to navigate again - tourist office and coffee. ... Walk to Hotel Armenonville (30 mins) - charm & tradition with only 12 rooms.Early wake up at 5. Nice - stairs to navigate again - tourist office and coffee. ... Walk to Hotel Armenonville (30 mins) - charm & tradition with only 12 rooms....
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Oct 7, 2009 - Nice
They sent us down a street that didn’t live up to the beauty that I thought Nice was known for. ... I began to wonder if Nice wasn’t nice, after all. ... He explained that we had to walk through Nice to get to the bus station at the far end of the esplanade. ... It was only after spending a day seeing Monaco and the next day seeing Cannes that we focused our attention on Nice itself. ... We climbed aboard; no queue at all that far from the station, and rode to the more modern part of Nice, north and west of the old city. ...
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Oct 7, 2009 - Avignon - St Remy - Les Baux - Pont du Gard - Orange
Early morning wander through the markets and then off on the bus to St Remy de Provence for their Wed markets - beautiful linen. Enjoyed dinner back in Avignon with Dana & Fay and some good laughs - nice ladies. ...
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Oct 7, 2009 - Nice...sort of
We spent over 10 hours on the train from Rome to Nice. ... We ended up really loving Nice though. ... We went for a really nice walk from our hostel to the beach at night and hung out there. ...
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Oct 6, 2009 - Avignon - Aix en Provence
After a llittle sleep in it was down to the bus to meet Dana & Fay & off to Aix-en-Provence. ... Aix is described as a pocket of Parisian chic in Provence (all class) - it's plane tree shaded boulevards & public squares are littered with 17th & 18th century mansions & fountains.After a llittle sleep in it was down to the bus to meet Dana & Fay & off to Aix-en-Provence. ... Aix is described as a pocket of Parisian chic in Provence (all class) - it's plane tree shaded boulevards & public squares are littered with 17th & 18th century mansions & fountains....
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Oct 6, 2009 - Avignon
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Oct 5, 2009 - My birthday - Carcassonne to Avignon
What a start to the day - missed our wake up call and our TGV. Early afternoon and now headed for Avignon. ... 6pm and we got to our hotel - Kyraid Avignon - then it was out for dinner (Linda kindly shouted me for my birthday) - a wander around the Palais des Papes and Pont St Benezet. ...
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Sep 23, 2009 - Marseille, France
that's the image that Marseille will always bring to mind for us. ... Marseille itself is a city with flair, with a buzzing port, lovely old buildings, an incredibly ornate cathedral (called. ... We've become the masters of public transportation and we really used those skills in Marseille: we arrived by train, rode on their metro (subway), buses and tram lines and left on a government owned ship. ...
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Sep 22, 2009 - Paris - overnight train to Milan
Sleep in and then off to the Musee d Orsay.Sleep in and then off to the Musee d Orsay....
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Sep 21, 2009 - Villefranche & Saint Jean Cap Ferrat
Today we spent most of the day at the beach at Saint Jean Cap Ferrat and Villefranche.Today we spent most of the day at the beach at Saint Jean Cap Ferrat and Villefranche....
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