French Riveria and Italy

It’s been a very exciting few days after leaving Avignon and heading to the south of France – the Riveria! It’s hard to believe we are in the same small country. It looks so different and feels very tropical in a way. There are significantly more apartment buildings, all facing the sea (go figure) and the boats…oh my! We picked our next boat – when we win the lottery 😊🎉 We stayed in Juan les Pins which is about half way between Cannes and Nice.

One of the many beaches in Juan les Pins which is where we stayed.
This is our new sailboat, when we win the big lottery. It’s hard to tell but it’s over 100 ft in length.
Cannes beach wannabees😄
Cannes in all it’s tropical glory.
This street is apparently the place to shop in Cannes. We walked it but didn’t shop much.
One of many beaches in Cannes.
Mark and I walked to Antibe, the next town east of Juan les Pins. More boats and beaches.

We left Juan les Pins this morning and headed to Arvier, Italy. We traveled through some absolutely amazing scenery, starting with (what we thought) some large mountains with some crazy hairpin turns. But these mountains were just babies next to the ones we saw in northern Italy! It really takes your breath away. Tomorrow we will be exploring a town called Aosta, which is fairly close to Turin (Torino). 

The drive leaving France! Check out the road! Crazy stuff.
“I drove that” and survived! Excellent grand prix driving Mark.

Lots of big cliffs in this region of Italy. it’s near Aosta.
The full scale Italy mountains.
The view from the door of our apartment in Arvier, Italy.

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  1. Beautiful pics. Stayed in the Aosta valley when John was working in Northern Italy for 6 weeks. I remember the roads, crazy. Nice to have Evelyn with you on this part of your trip. Sounds like you are having a fantastic time. Enjoy!

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