Well, one thing with living over here, is the close proximity to everywhere in Europe.
Had a trip to France planned a few months ago and it finally happened last week.
We went by bus in a group of 50 people to Province, one of the states of France.
Leaving at 5am on Tuesday, we arrived in Jesslo, in Italy on Tuesday evening at 10pm...in the rain!
We went for miles and miles past lake Balaton in Western Hungary and into beautiful Slovenia.
Gosh that place is gracefully beautiful. The shapes of the trees, the tidy villages, the huge amount of building going on over there in Slovenia is amazing.
You could see snow capped mountains in the Julian Alps and it was just breathtaking.
Very much like Switzerland, but not as far to go!
We stayed the night in a nice hotel in Jesslo, in Italy, on the beach(yellow sand) and left early next morning for our 5 night destination in France in a valley cabin park, by a mountain stream, just outside of Nice and 20 klm from Monaco!
Picturesque to say the least.
A sad story to tell re my pics.
I can't get them from my phone to here, so I had to spend forever, searching images online to find the similar pics to mine, so you'll notice they are a bit higgledy piggledy.
I was surprised at how good the pics appear on the phone, so am busting to see them on here ASAP.
I need a technical person to make the download transfer work. It all comes up ready, but keeps telling me there are no pics to import...
There are 1840 images on my phone and I want them off it!!!
Not a happy camper... :(
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| Had to find a pic that would grab your attention! My dearest sister Judy and I in OZ in Feb this year. I was frazzled already from the heat and humidity and it was only the 5th day in OZ!!! |
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| Jesslo beach from the copious rocky ledges everywhere here ...a found pic... |
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| Love how all the beaches here are so formal! Real sand here, but yellow! Not as sandy as we know, but stickier. We stayed in a hotel just behind the front one here... |
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| This is so typical of everywhere along this coastal strip of the few hundred miles that we did... |
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| Amazing buildings just everywhere... |
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| Monaco, Nice and into Italy |
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| We were all gasping with wonderment on the first day at these scenes, but after a day, we got used to it... Day after day, it was the same. Amazing! |
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| Little villages everywhere, in the hills, on slopes that make you giddy to look at...Beautiful indeed. |
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| The whitey grey rocks/stones were everywhere and most houses were made from them in one way or another. |
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| Vineyards were a lot more personal than I'd imagined. It seemed every farmer had a few acres of vines, a house, then the next farmer had his plot...Miles and miles of villages like this. Most with smaller farm houses. |
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| After a while you get used to everything looking the same! |
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| So many rocky cliffs! |
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| This was Italy...terraced land in the distance...They did not waste an inch! |
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| So many old castles and huge big old buildings. |
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| Hills and more hills... |
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| Every corner had another village in the cleft! |
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| I counted 149 tunnels from France into Italy and up to Slovenian border, when there were only a few after that! |
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| Tunnel after tunnel! |
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| Bridge after bridge, across gorges, ravines, rivers...nothing stopped these guys. Amazing engineering prowess! |
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| So many of these massive constructs. |
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| Slovenia...in the wrong spot, but I forgot to post them ... |
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| Typical Slovenian village... |
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| The stream at the back of our cabin in Vallon Rouge in Province, France. |
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| Almost a replica of our 6 berth cabin.Sep bath room, sep loo, 3 bed rooms, kit/dining and TV. Very well laid out with lots of verandah space. |
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| More of the lovely swiftly flowing 3200 klm stream. |
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| The pool at the park...being prepped for summer. We were the first people in the park this season! |
OK...that's all I can do today...
My eyes are popping!
Hope you enjoyed it thus far...
Bye for now,
Cheers,
M
xxx
