Category: Cote d’Azur

We spent a week in August staying in this small town in south-eastern France, not by deliberate choice but because one of the only remaining available holiday villas we could find happened to be here. We had driven here from home in Southampton, spending the first week of our holiday in the west of the region and then driving here…

One of the advantages of where we stayed in the South of France (Saint Cezaire Sur Siagne near Grasse) was its almost perfect position for visiting the glamourous resorts of the Cote d’Azure but without having to pay the price of actually staying in those resorts. Our villa was about 45-minutes’ drive from the centre of Cannes, so we headed…

There aren’t many places in the world like Monaco, It’s a unique destination and, much like Cannes, is a place you probably either visit because you’re a billionaire with a mega yacht, or because you’re basically going to stare in amazement at those billionaires and their mega yachts! We were staying near Grasse, which was about an hour’s drive from…

We booked this villa for the second week of our fortnight trip to the South of France after finding it available at the last minute on the Homeaway website. The pictures on the website were a bit grainy and, coupled with the fact it was still available when so many other villas in the region were already booked, this made…

The last stage of our drive from the UK to the South of France took us around a huge, picturesque lake, at which we stopped off at several points to enjoy the views, paddle and swim from the roadside beaches. Lac de St Cassien has calm, clear water and spots with restaurants and shady sitting areas perfect as a getaway…