Today I’ve been busy working on AMB Riviera, the sister site to AMB Cote d’Azur. I didn’t plan to do so, thinking I’d spend just this morning restyling the layout a bit and adding a bit of text here and there. Well, like I wrote yesterday, these horrid beasties suck you into their little world and here I am, hours later and evening is fast approaching.

However, since Wednesday I’ve made the concerted effort to go for walkies with Freddy Fox Terrier at a local park called La Valmasque. These walks have been very enjoyable and a great way to relax and work through ideas for the two websites. Sadly the park gets packed during the summer months but, for the moment, it’s nice and quiet as Freddy and I amble around contentedly.

While humans and their doggy chums come to walk round the park, it is also visited by wild boar the fresh rooting of which we’ve found in the grass as they turn it over in search of worms and roots. The park also has a super lake called l’Etang de Font Merle whose main attraction is one of the largest lotus colony in Europe: Nelumbo nucifera from Asia.

I’m sure you’ll be delighted to know that tomorrow Nigel and I are off to Nice to take a look at the Carnival. Proof of our visit and escape from the binding tentacles of our computers will be in the shape of several photos that I’ll share with you in tomorrow’s blog. How’s that for a treat?