Day 5 - 15 miles from Mandlieu to Agay, St Raphael

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 Raphael. All in all a fabulous day.
And so we ended our walking trip with a very civilised train ride along the Riviera Railway.


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