Sunday 4-10-15
We were up pretty early to board the coach but it was pretty easy leaving Barcelona as it appeared not many people were up at 7am on a Sunday morning. We travelled back into France heading for Cannes. We stopped at a beautiful little town on the way called Arles. This city like many we have visited had quite a few remnants from the Roman empire, including a beautiful amphitheatre. We were able to go in this amphitheatre and explore. Although bull fighting is banned in Spain it is still going on in France and in fact, there was to be a bull fight next Sunday. The amphitheatre is still used for concerts and bull-fighting. We wandered around the lovely narrow streets of this town with many people sitting out at cafés. Van Gogh spent alot of time in this area painting and you were able to buy many souvenirs in the little shops. I couldn’t resist and bought another t-shirt......as the warm weather continues.
We continued on towards Cannes. On the way our tour leader, Ben told us that there had been some very bad storms in this area the previous night with flash flooding. A state of emergency was declared and people were missing and at least 7 were dead. We were lucky however that we could still get into Cannes without too much trouble although we did see evidence of the flooding. Before checking into our hotel we visited a French perfumery where we had a wonderful presenter who explained to us all the processes it takes to craft finr French perfume. Of course at the end we could sample some of the perfumes and some of us bought some.....well most of the women on the bus and some of the men! The fun did not end there. We were all given a little bottle and then 10 different fragrance bottles eg vanilla, lemon grass, jasmine etc. We then could "create" our own perfume. Well some smelt like toilet deodoriser but some creations were quite nice.
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