Hola and Bonjour from Beautiful Provence in the south of France! We’ve returned to The Old World but we’re not quite finished yet.
Why France though? Well there was always going to be some sort of return Europe leg on this trip but I was unsure how it would have worked out. Back in April when I was making my way down the Cono Sur I ended up speaking to my distant uncle and good family friend Clive and remembered about his place in France. I asked about seeing if I could possibly stay at his place there for a bit before heading back to Blighty. After some talking it turned out him and his wife were in Residence there and also their onward travel plans happened to very much align with when I wanted to be getting home, so after asking Clive said he was happy to have us and also agreed to let me hitch a ride back with him after asking pretty please so as a result here we are in France 🇫🇷. Good thing he’s here to do the talking porque je ne parlais vous la Baguetteouix! Imbécil!!! 🥖💥‼️ Yeah really should have done a bit of Duolingo when I was bedridden in BA but eh es lo que hay!!
So after we left off I flew back to Madrid a few days ago with Iberia and then took a connecting flight to Marseille where I was quickly met by Clive who picked me up and after an hour and a bit I was at his place in Beautiful Hyères!
Now it had been a bit over 24 hours of travel door to door from when I left the place in Buenos Aires to Clive’s place and true to form got no kip on the plane so the first day was now a fight to stay awake till at least 10pm to get the jetlag gone ASAP. Clive’s answer to this was a bit of Hydrotherapy.
After I ditched my gear off and had a light bite to eat we jumped back in the car and headed to Plage de l’Almannare and man this was a lovely swim. It’s mid 30’s in degrees here and the water was north of 20 Degs too. Was so refreshing after the long travel day.
After this it was back to the gaff and dinner. I brought some of Mendoza’s best Malbec with me and we cracked that open and that gave us the push we needed to last till half 10. I finally crashed after about 30 hours without sleep and got a good 8 hours kip in and the next day was a slow one with more rest and going to the beach again.
Honestly many thanks to Clive for having us here and this has will be a great way to end out this adventure. So what’s the plan now then?
Well I’m staying here for about a week and this is mostly going to be R&R time but we are going to do a few trips inland and to Marseille. After this we will be hitting the road and spending a few days travelling up through inland France before taking the channel tunnel and finally home back to the Western Province 🏴
Next blog we do a bit of exploring in Hyères. Au revoir por ahora!
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