Settling in....

Still wondering if jetlag is haunting us or____? In any case, weather has been traditional and glorious-especially compared to the non-summer in Boston we experienced before we left! So yesterday we set off for our first beach excursion - we are beach people, as well as committed tourists, after all! There is a delightful, albeit Mediterran rocky, beach de la Tortue (turtle) 15 minutes away just beyond the train station. So we spent 3 hours there enjoying the ambiance and just being there/here in la belle France! Water was perfect temperature to give us some good water time, even though the tide was going out.

Today we started out early to Santa Lucia, where we thought we would find sandy beach - wrong! But that was okay, as after a 15 minute walk into an enclave of very high-end homes(once a realtor....) we found a secluded cove with great swimming albeit it was still pretty rocky. Swimmers were diving off wonderful rocks, etc! (We have some pretty fancy beach shoes we brought with us to set the fashion police en gard!) Still grand enough to keep us for 3 hours....

However, because we LIKE beach chairs, not towels on the ground-rocky or not- we decided to go find a place to BUY same! (At many beaches you can rent beach chairs for 15+ euros!) So yet another adventure, (Melissa did add, "Ok, kids, Big Ben on the left, Tower on London on your right", as we "whipped" around trying to find our destination!), and we did find the Carrefours in Frejus (a huge discount store), where we were DELIGHTED to find two chairs which we QUICKLY took right over to the sandy beach at Frejus, which was wall-to-wall, but we loved it!!!! We were astounded that even at 6 when we left, not many had left.

We came back to enjoy the very tasty rabbit which Elizsabeth had left in her freezer for us, as we regrouped for another day. The water is SO clear and pristine and perfect temperature! As we drive we see the distant Esterel mountains in the distance that remind me a bit of California. It is a beautful place!