Dans Trips

Today will be our last day walking together. After this Ricks & Peter head home and I will continue walking for 7 days down to Toulon. Today's walk will be lovely, up in the hills above the French Riviera, 16 miles of unspoilt beauty. The day started off with a lovely stroll along the seafront in the early sunshine Then we turned off the main street up into the Massif de L'Esterel Nature reserve, a renowned wilderness Park which was absolutely stunning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massif_de_l%27Esterel some very interesting wildlife... Then we saw 30 beehives which had been placed on a path and forced us to change our route completely. No way past millions of busy bees... our diverted route took us down to Agay instead of St Raphael, and we ended up taking the wonderful Riviera Train into St Rap...

Tomorrow will be a much easier day after these last 3 very tough days. A gentle 13 mile hike through forest trails down to Mandlieu, near Cannes. Plus, it's pretty much downhill all day. WooHoo!! A very gentle day, with stops in Mouans-Sartoux and Pegolas to idle the day away in the sunshine. Not much in the way of scenery as we are no longer up in the mountains. Last day tomorrow as a group , 16 miles across a mountain and down to St Raphael. Looking forward to that. A walk along the Mandlieu harbour side before dinner. Very civilised.

Today is going to be another long distance at 16 miles, but the elevation is approx half of the last 2 days at 2,300ft. So we are hoping that it will be slightly easier after the last 2 monster days. Last night we all struggled up the stairs to our rooms after an early supper, like 3 old men. View from hotel window - another lovely day shaping up. So we headed out at 8ish and had a day of mainly gentle ups and downs with the exception of one really steep rocky descent where I took a nasty tumble. Plenty of blood and bruising but it could have been much worse. We had time for sunny cafe stops in Vence and Roquefort les Pins before arriving at the wonderful Valbonne, and the Hotel Armories. During the day we walked through lovely countryside & views and loads of wildlife. Time for hot showers now. Our hotel...