We're at Heathrow now and leaving this afternoon for home. We survived Ryanair...1 1/2 hours in the plane waiting for Stansted to clear. Otherwise not too bad...I guess delays can happen anywhere. It certainly is great to leave from an airport 10 minutes away from Carqueiranne and no traffic hassles.
We ended up using about a half a tank of gas for our whole week in Carqueiranne. We really needed the car though and even drove it to the beach which was close but felt we had to save our strength. We had wonderful swims everyday.
On our last day we had Gambas (large prawns) au Pastis & loads of garlic with rose wine in a restaurant at the port. We met a really nice couple from Montpellier...he's a doctor and she dabbles in painting and also currently helping her youngest prepare for the ominous Bac (grade 12 basically but very difficult exams) She has recently inherited a house from her aunt in Carquiranne and they are now renting it out. They invited us over and it's just great...very close to the port and very tranquill location. Now we have two places in our wonderful little village to recommend to friends and for ourselves.
We had a lot of laughs with them as he love to speak Italian and also Spanish and also practice his English so with all four languages swirling around it was quite a babel!
