Ooh, Can the Cannes trip…

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The good weather finally broke , and faced with a damp Thursday we decided a road trip down to the coast would be good. 

Passed through more excellent limestone geology like this – 

Very taken by the wrinkly sedimentary layers. It looks as if someone in the early Carboniferous period hung out the landscape to dry, but neglected to iron it afterwards. ( To be fair, the Iron Age only came much later)

We drove SE for over an hour through the ‘Pre-Alps’ national park and arrived at Cabris, a neat town on steep hillside descending to the Cote d’Azur. This was our view to the coast ( Cannes towards the left , in deep mist) from a famous outlook point

Glorious view over Cannes and Côte d’Cloud
Artistic pose : ” I wondered, groaning at the cloud that blocks the view from here to Nice…..”
..and looking south .

It really wasn’t the right weather for sight-seeing, so after munching our sarnies and grabbing a drink, we Cannes-ed the whole idea and headed home.

Heavy rain later at the camp site covered everything in brown splodges (result of a sand storm ?) making the car look like we’d been rallying. 

So I had a go at washing it, mainly to keep up with the OCD German next to us, who scrubbed his tent down daily.

Sadly , the rain returned overnight with the result that the next morning  ..

Before
After

Can’t fight entropy.

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