The hot sunny weather continued for our stay in France, except for one night in Paris when we got rained on as we left a show on the Champs Elysees. The show was at a place called Lido, which is like Moulin Rouge, but supposedly better. For about AUS$200 you get a bottle of champagne and two hours of spectacularly-dressed topless dancers, broken up with some pretty amazing acts including two incredibly strong men who could balance with one hand on the other guy's head. We got half price thanks to a tip from Theresa's mum who popped across from London for the weekend to stay with us in Paris.
Aside from the show we did the obligatory tourist things of going up the Eiffel Tower (2nd floor was enough for us) and the Arc de Tromph, which was amazing. We also saw the Mona Lisa and visited Buddha bar (but decided against buying a $30 drink).
In the south of France we got off to a shakey start driving on the right (but very wrong) side of the road. There was one lucky moment coming down a windy mountain road where Theresa pointed out that we were on the left side of the road and I corrected just before a car came around the bend the other way.
The highlight was probably seeing flamingoes in le Carmargue. We saw hundreds and could get really close to them to take photos. In the same place we also saw beavers and otters. So cute!
We met up with an old friend of Theresa's who lives in Antibes - a mostly English town in the French Riviera - and she and her boyfriend took us out for a nice dinner and drink.
Breakfast on the pebbly beach of Nice was very relaxing, but missing the Europcar carpark and getting lost in peakhour traffic and then running for the train was not so relaxing. Next time no car hire!
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