Villefranche-Sur-Mer

We ended the trip in the French Riviera in Villefranche-Sur-Mer where we were hoping to find the sun and the beach. While we did get the sun on the first two days, the rest of our trip poured rain. We anchored ourselves in the town of Villefranche each night, but hopped along the Riviera by train each day to visit the towns of Nice, Cannes, Antibes and Monaco.

Dan finishing one of his great e-mail trip updates on the train

Our hotel in Villefranche

The town of Villefranche-sur-mer...beautiful!!

Dan being silly at dinner


As you can see he was cracking me up :)

More scenes from Villefranche

Beach in Villefranche

NICE

We spent one day in Nice on the beach

BACK in VILLEFRANCHE

a little snack on our balcony

The best gnocchi ever!! We had it 3 times we loved it so much

CANNES

We spent one beach day in Cannes

location of the Cannes film festival

BACK in VILLEFRANCHE

We walked along this cobblestone path each day to get to our hotel from the main town/train

chilling on our hotel balcony

ANTIBES

We spent one rainy day in the charming city of Antibes

Picasso Museum in Antibes

views from the Museum

We are drenched

I bought this cute plaid umbrella in town so that I could continue shopping :)

MONACO

We spent our last day in Monaco--another rainy day

Monte Carlo

lunch with views of Monte Carlo

Royal palace

church where Grace Kelly is buried along with her husband

Grace Kelly's burial stone

LAST NIGHT in VILLEFRANCHE

BACK HOME IN SEATTLE

Our painting beat us home from Bruges