After a night out with the local Finns on Friday night, we decided to drive down to Frejus with Janne, Katja and my parents.
We managed a relatively early start (considering the well-known difficulties of my family in achieving early starts), headed towards the Massif d'Esterel (a large reddish rocky massif situated between Cannes and Frejus) along the Corniche d'Esterel - we were treated to some truly awesome views over the coast and the massif.
Having stopped a couple of times for some tourist photos, we arrived in Frejus. After a quick sandwich for lunch, we headed to explore the Roman ruins for which Frejus is famous. First we visited the arena - which is pretty well-preserved and quite large (although not as big as the more famous one in Arles, in Provence). After that we searched out, and eventually found (having half-accidentally seen most of Frejus in the process ;-) the Roman theatre. I must say it was a big of a disappointment. Basically they had covered the old Roman theatre with a modern metal structure which pretty much covered all the old parts. Can't really see the point, to be honest...
Having seen these ancient treasures we then started heading back towards Nice, stopping on the way at the Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Jerusalem. It's a very nice little chapel hidden in the middle of a park, designed in the 1950's by Jean Cocteau, as a kind of refuge for artists in the area. A truly sublime place...
In the evening we went for a meal to Mougins, a procenval village near Cannes. I love this place - it basically seems to be dedicated to food. Restaurant after restaurant... It's also a very pretty and tidy place, with a lot of artist's studios about (kind of reminds me in some ways of St. Paul, although thankfully it's a lot less touristy).
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