I can has interwebs plz?

So. It's taken this long to find an internet connection...

Monaco was nice, but a little lifeless and way too pretentious in my opinion (what did we expect, right?). It's mainly just a place for old rich people to show off their expensive cars. The defribrilators on the lamp posts should give an indication of the average age of the population there... Still, we walked the track, which was pretty cool.

We left pretty early and travelled west along the coast until reaching St Raphael, which is a beachy town where noone speaks english. Kind of like a french version of Noosa, I guess. Actually, I think it's been the best place we've visited yet - people were friendly, the beaches were nice (Australia still has them beaten, though), and the food wasn't overly expensive. We got lost for about 5 hours on the first day while looking for Shellite (don't bother looking btw), and eventually retired to the local pub. 6 Desparados later I found myself in bed the next morning with a terrible headache. Went to the beach the next morning, and basically stayed there all day.
Oh! And we tried Escargot!

After St Raphael we continued west to Marseille, but I think we were too tired to enjoy it fully - It's a big city (bigger than Sydney), and we had trouble navigating it without the GPS. After getting ripped off by a Taxi, we reached the hotel, where we stayed up all night finishing propellors on their shiny porcelain sink.

6:30 TGV the next morning, which took us to Metz by 12:00 in great comfort at 300kph.