Saint Cyr-sur-Mer

Last weekend checked out a small seaside town about an hour from where we're staying, Saint Cyr-sur-Mer, in part because it was mentioned in a cartoon ("Oggy and the Cockroaches") that the girls watched recently. That made this town very interesting to Ella, who was trying to figure out where exactly Oggy and his friends had been in this town. As for the rest of us, the sunset and the rocky paths by the coast were enough to make our trip worthwhile. We also saw serious windsurfing on the waves. The famed Mistral wind was over 100 km/h at times last week. The wind generally comes for a day or two at a time, once every week or two in the fall (and more often in the winter, I believe). A small price to pay for the nearly constant sunshine here.