Cassis

Bonjour from Cassis!

 

The day we left Provence was sad as we had just left our Cuzzies but exciting because we were heading back to the coast to a place called Cassis. Our french friend Delphine had told Mummy about this place and that we should really go there because it had heaps to explore and see.

We rented an apartment for a week all on the Internet! We had seen photos of it and couldn't wait to try a new town. It was another crazy drive back to the coast as the traffic was stills nuts. It was also still very hot. When we drove into the town, it was awesome - surrounded by hills and cliffs that went straight into the sea. We had read in the lonely planet that Cassis had the largest sea cliff in Europe and we believe it! It was humongous! It was a pretty port town that had heaps of boats and fishermen. Our apartment was right up the back of the village high on the hill. It had amazing views of the cliffs, village and port. The sea was as blue as the sky and we were excited to go for a swim. We also had a huge swimming pool that the complex shared.

The only bad part of our new house was it was the top floor of 8 sets of stairs and NO LIFT and very hot. Mum and Dad sweated heaps getting all our stuff upstairs! It was funny. We helped too but only with the light things.

That first night we went to the village for a flash dinner at the busy restaurants. So cool. Vi has fish and chips but not like the fish and chips you get at home and I had the calamari rings (yum my favourite) and the parents had seafood too. It was delicious. BUT...

That night poor Violet and Mummy were up all night with vomits and poos. Oh no! Mummy was a little bit better the next day but Violet was not. She could not stop throwing up. It felt bad for her because me and Daddy were fine and could go swimming at our swimming pool. We also had no air-con and it was a heat wave so we were finding it very hard with the heat at nights. Mummy thought of a great idea of freezing a pair of knickers (clean of course!) and we put them of our heads to go to sleep! They worked well!

2 days later Violet got a bit better but had to take it easy. Me and Mummy walked into town to get her some stuff from the pharmacy and we did some sneaky shopping for Violets birthday that was the next week. We also did some not so secret shopping for us! I got a cool pair of leopard skin Birkenstocks and Vi and I got a new bikini each. Lucky as we have been swimming so much our togs have stretched and nearly broke.

Once the whole family was better we did heaps of cool stuff like taking a boat to the Calanques. These are amazing naturally made habours with high cliffs that surround them. Most can only be accessed by boat but there are a couple that you can get too by foot. It was far too hot to do that so boat it was.

We also drove to the highest point above Cassis - the view was fantastic but made us a little freaked out as it was windy and there was no barriers!

Another adventure was to take the tourist train out to the end of the Cassis bay. We saw really beautiful houses and beaches. Most of the beaches out that way are no sand or pebbles but huge rock/cliffs that you can jump straight off into the sea. Someone has kindly put ladders all along so you can get back up. People just sunbath on these huge flat rocks. We did learn that this rock is special and unique to this area and was also the rock used to build the Statue of Liberty that is in New York!

Speaking of beaches we found our favourite which was 10 minutes walk from our house - it was called Bestouan Beach. It was pebbly and clean with clear blue water. It was so beautiful and we could snorkel around the rocks - as well as dive of the rocks. We also found out the the beach was so clear beacuause it had under ground streams feeding into the beach - they make the water colder too - We loved it. As a treat one day we hired comfy beach beds at a private club. That's what you do if you don't want to sit on the rocks. It was colourful and trendy. Mum loved it - we all did. We felt very posh. We could shower and use their fluffy towels. Yum.

On our last night we explored more of the cool town and visited the street markets. We meet a man that makes you into a cartoon so we decided to do it. He took about 15 minutes to draw us and he was really good. This is the result...

Next week is very exciting as we have two birthdays in our family and we are off to visit our friends from Sumner that now live in Cannes (just along the coast up near Nice - pronounce Neece not Nice like I first thought). We are all excited as we miss the Wood-Floyd's and have not seen them since November last year. Yay - party time!

Miss you all lots, love Isla and Vi xx

 

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