'Wherever the car takes us'

I came home from school last Wednesday to find out that we were going for a long boring drive to "wherever the car takes us" as dad likes to say.  At the beginning of the year we took a two hour drive along the "bord de mer" that my sister and I did not enjoy.  I wasn't really looking forward to taking another drive, and I just wanted to stay home and shop.  

The sun was shining and the sky was blue so we decided to take a beach bag just in case... After about 40 minutes of driving and looking out at the beautiful coast with big red jagged rocks leaning out over the ocean, I had to admit, I was starting to enjoy it; but just a little.  Just past Cannes, we were headed to Frejus/San Raphael.   

We drove by many small beaches that were barely big enough for a few dozen people.  We decided to stop and go down to a beach seeing that we were all hot and that the beach looked so welcoming.  As we made our way over to the stairs heading down to the beach, dad noticed something that gave us all second thoughts about going down there...all the men and women on the beach were nude.

Sadly, my sister and I walked back to the car, being reassured by mom and dad that there would be other beaches we would find. In no time we were all out of the car again, with beach bags in hand making our way down to another small beach hidden behind some big red rocks. Madeleine and I immediately jumped into the water with dad tagging along.

Maddy and dad decided to leave me and mom on the main beach and go behind some rocks to see what they could find...perhaps dinner? Maddy excitedly shouted showing dad and I a little sea snail she had found. In no time the three of us were filling up a bucket with dinner. We found sea snails and other shell fish that were stuck to the rocks, and dad found a strange looking shellfish with black spikes on the outside. 

When we got home Madeleine and I helped dad make spaghetti with shellfish. Although it wasn't as tasty as we had hoped, we had a lot of fun looking for dinner on our 'boring drive'.

Simona

Keep cycling dad!!  The belly's still there