I write this very short blog for completeness’ sake only.
This was to be our last day in France. We were on our way to Italy. However, shortly after we left Saint Raphael in the Van, the mother of all rainstorms hit us; a veritable monsoon; a deluge of biblical proportions. We continued driving, making no more than 20 kilometres an hour on the motorway and then; after 30 miles or so, we decided enough was enough. We paused, reprogrammed the Sat-Nav and drove through a very flooded Antibes to a small campsite in a place called La Colle sur Loup which is in the Les Alpes Maritimes Department of the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur Region.
I cannot recommend the campsite because we saw so little of it (although what l saw looked fine). We were confined to the Van because of the wet weather and because the onsite restaurant-bar was closed because of a domestic emergency.
We hunkered down until the next day still some 30 miles from the Italian border. No matter; it was better than driving in such atrocious conditions and the weather forecast for the following day was (typically France this) nothing less than wonderful.