“You can stop when you go up, not when you go down.” Napoléon Bonaparte

Back to square one, you do not touch € 200 ! Several family events keep us on the Coast, we take the opportunity to work a little and spend the music festival in Mandelieu-la-Napoule, Ronald playing alongside of’Oliver Bell.

Side of the stage

Mandelieu-la-Napoule

Before resuming our flight, I owe you a little flashback on our way to Lake St. Croix ! Le 1er juin Rentres and zigzag, since we dug into the Gorges du Verdon. Superb views to the Palud-sur-Verdon where after a brief hesitation we decided to take the Ridge Road. Simple loop that returns to the village but offers spectacular views of the Verdon and surroundings. Although we took : we had the chance to admire a vulture, rarely visible from the serious photographer and the watch that we showed ! For the visual, you will by against the explanatory panel we found lower, my little bridge not competing with their monstrous telephoto lenses ! A force turns, we reach the river level and move around Trigance, clinging to the hillside in the shadow of the walls of his castle. Last stop in Comps-sur-Artuby where we spend the night on a free area. A trip to Draguignan, Entrecasteaux and then go… Here for the first days of June.

Le Verdon, a bit higher

Back at the Verdon

Three weeks in dry dock for sail again Monday 25 June noon, in the footsteps of Napoleon : Grasse, Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey (where we already came to spend a weekend), Castellane, Digne-les-Bains (From afar !), Sisteron (pretty !), Mison-les-Armands… small village, tiens a lac, 'll see ! Two kilometers away through the apple Mison and we are at the edge of a lake surrounded by stunning reedbed where few plants grow and live several species of birds. six, we will see that half : the common coot, bit shy, the great reed warbler warbler, too strong for me to have time to get out the camera and circaète Jean-le-Blanc off.

kitchen window

Mison Lake and mountains