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Hi everyone - Wendy here.

We haven't done an update for a few days ... Trouble with the Internet.

See link below - we called our camping ground Camp Hi Dee Hi (for those of you old enough to remember the program), if not check out the link :). We loved the camping ground, the pools were great, the facilities were well looked after and the staff couldn't have done more for us. It was really easy to slip into the camping ground routine - down to the pools at 10am, swim until 12/1pm then baçk to the cabin for lunch. Now I use the word cabin quite loosely as it was three bedrooms with two bathrooms and toilets - hardly slumming it. Then we would chill out and head back to the pool about 5pm until 7pm, home for dinner and time for a wine and then bed. There were plenty of onsite activities arranged if we wanted to join in eg aqua jogging, water polo, soccer games and bike rides. We did none of that - just swam, ate and people watched .....

Deck chairs at Cannes

We managed to leave for one day to head to Cannes - took 30 mins to get there and then it took another 45 mins to get down one of the main roads to get towards the beach - reminded us of home as the hold up was due to roadworks :). Having never been to Cannes we just ended up parking the car and walking to the beach. The first beach we came too was Long Beach, we couldn't have picked a more expensive slice of the beach if we had tried .... So we just went with it, paid a ridiculous amount to hire sun loungers on the beach and get waited on by the restaurant. The water was beautiful, the views both on and off the water amazing. There is a lot of money on show in Cannes.

Swimming in the Med at Cannes

We took the scenic route home - more amazing views, beautiful coves and beaches. Stopping was very difficult as the road is narrow and windy (poor Grace, she coped very well). Made it back to Camp Hi De Hi and felt much more at home.

As Andrew mentioned in our last blog, last Saturday we travelled to a village in Provence called St Remy. I love it. It is a beautiful wee village, there are so many little streets to explore and today they had a wonderful market. We got into the market early (parking is really limited in the village), and we spent nearly three hours wandering around. It is one of the best markets we have been too. We are having a great time in a wonderful villa with Jacquie and Stephen, with plenty of good food and wine. The Devlin's have not explored much further than St Remy - it is so hard to do any more than just pop into the village and then come home and hang out at the pool for the afternoon.  Jacquie and Stephen have been much better at exploring. We are all going to head out tomorrow .... But we will be home again for swimming in the early afternoon :). The temperatures are in the early 30's everyday so you can understand the attraction to the pool.

Pool at the camp - Kate 

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