Showing posts with label St. Cyr sur mer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Cyr sur mer. Show all posts

29 Aug 2014

FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE

1. At the beginning of this week I was still in Southern France. We went to St Cyr sur mer to pick up Claudie's eldest daughter who lives there together with her boyfriend.



It's a rather romantic place in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by vineyards, fields and beautiful flowers.

2.



We went to the habour of St. Cyr admired the huge boats and I pitied the tourists on the beach who lay there like sardines in a can, side by side and roasted in the sunshine.



We looked for a nice place to have an ice cream together !

3.



On my last day I enjoyed the sunshine laying on a hammock. First I was a little hesitating to climb on that thing, I thought I would roll over and land on the tiles, but I managed and it was very comfortable !



Claudie and I posed in front of the habour of Sanary, which is the closest to Ollioules where Claudie lives. In the evening the whole family gathered for the last meal, (see pictures post below)

4. On our way back there was a terrible smell in our car. It really stank like fertilizer. We closed the window, but it made it only worse. We thought about wearing gas masks, it became unbearable. The mistery was solved when I got out of the car ! I had stepped in dog poo and it was my shoe which smelled so badly ! We bursted out in laughter, I cleaned my shoe as good as I could and the smell was gone !

5. I left France taking the plane in Marseille. It was so hot that I wore just my thin trousers and a light T-shirt. I had some spare trousers and another T-shirt and a thick cardigan left out of my suitcase I knew I would fly into cold weather. At the air-conditioned airport I started dressing for winter ! I put on the other pair of trousers over the once I was wearing and a second T-shirt. In the plane it was so cold that I had to wear my cardigan.

The flight went smooth and 1/1/2 hour later I arrived wearing also my raincoat ! From 30° (86F) I landed in 19° (66F) and grey weather. Mr. G. picked me up and we went home.

Holidays are finished ! Routine life has me back !

26 Oct 2013

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE

We were invited to a cheese fondu in St. Cyr sur Mer, by Claudie's daughter and her boyfriend. Before going there I just googled what interesting things we could visit in this little town. To my surprise the big attraction there was a replica of the Statue of Liberty but not in XXL size but in S size.



So we left early afternoon and visited the city. Of course first the Statue of Liberty which had been designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and then offered by France to the USA. Apparently he had worked and also lived in St. Cyr. I will write about it later. It was quiet surprising for me to find the Statue in a little French city in the South. I had seen the real one years ago in NY.



After a walk through the town and watching the men playing their Boccia, we had a drink at the Café de la France with view on the Statue.

Then we drove a little outside of the city, where in 1966 a roman Villa had been discovered.



There was a wall painting of the villa as it probably looked, you still could see the remains of the walls of the different rooms, and Pierre admired the swimming pool.



It was still warm and we went to the beach, saw all these sailing boats parked in special buildings, saw people still swimming and watched a very beautiful sunset.

Then it was time to follow our invitation and we arrived punctually at 7 pm



Flavien has a cute little flat, very cosy and he had prepared a delicious cheese fondue himself. We had a wonderful supper and also a lot of fun !