Day 304 - Cipieres, France - June 8th 2005

We arrived in France on Monday, having sailed from Patras in Greece to Venice on a super ferry almost twice as big as a cross channel one. We were collected by Paul and he took us to Padova in Northern Italy where we visited the Basilica of St. Anthony (did you know that many of the Catholic Saints have their tongues cut and put on display in their churches?).

We then drove home to Cipieres where Mum lives. It is a small perched village north of Grasse (which is in between Nice and Cannes) in the south of France. The weather here is quite cool (in comparison to what we are used to) probably in the mid 20s (deg C). My brother and his family and my sister and her family will be joining us at the end of the month and we will be having a big family re-union. There will be about 15 of us.

I know that I have many blogs to complete and over the next 3 weeks I will be filling in all the gaps, especially Kenya and our sailing around the Greek islands. So keep coming back for a look or subscribe to the blog so you are notified when I next update. Stay tuned folks.