There aren’t any campsites on the coast between Villeneuve-Loubet – where we stayed just north of Antibes – and the Italian border, a distance of about 30 miles. So we stayed inland at Peillon, north of Monaco, a lovely little campsite, where our next door neighbours were a couple from UK, Pete and Wendy. Not only were they from UK, but Pete was originally from Folkestone, has an Irish passport, and they used to have a collie dog till last year, just like us. Oh, and they cycle.
From Peillon we used trains to get to Nice, Monaco and up into the lower Alps to Tende.
TENDE & VALLEE DE MERVEILLES – Valley of Wonders
Tende is a medieval village near the Italian border, 30 miles inland from the Mediterranean at a height of 1,100 metres. Nothing much has changed at Tende for centuries, other than it looked as if the population had shrunk as only about 10% of houses appeared to be occupied. The newest building was the wonderful museum which housed engravings found in the Valley of Wonders dated from 6,000 years ago.
