Two options .... train from Nice St Agustin, but cheapest will be taking 'local' buses and get dropped just before you go over the border .. 1€ ... there's a challenge for the IPC staffers ...
Two options .... train from Nice St Agustin, but cheapest will be taking 'local' buses and get dropped just before you go over the border .. 1€ ... there's a challenge for the IPC staffers ...
BTW -- it's RAINING ... yes , we should be around, and going to see Kari tomorrow if I remember.
Bit early for 'strikes' yet .. the sun isn't really warm enough
. Do it from your iPad while you're sitting in a petrol forecourt queue 
You can, and there's a helipad right there in the port vauban marina in Antibes, but Heli-Air regard it as a charter not a scheduled service. That makes it about €1800 each way, as opposed to €400 for the whole chopper on the airport-Monaco run. €3600 per weekend is quite a lot of dough when you do it every weekend, for a trip that is 18minutes in a car, which you already have and the crew can drive, and it gets you right to the boat's transom! Call me tight (I'm Yorkshire) but I just cannot find myself willing to stump up €15,000/month for this shortlived luxury. Much better ways to spend €15k on short lived fun (coincidentally, also in Monaco!)
Fabulous choice Chateau Chèvre D'Or, respect, though for a non wedding event I'd rather be anchored on boat at Paloma beach looking up at the hotel than vice versa!
Thnaks. It is April after all. Weekend forecast is sunshine, woohoo.
Rafiki, the strike was one day, a Tuesday. All flights today are fine. If you want to tot up do/don't reasons to move boat to France/Med, you can add that one to the list, no problem
. (Has anyone told him about the PV initiation ceremony yet?) 
it's been ok here, if a bit windy. Saturday pleasant, yesterday very nice, clear skies, hot sun. Today cooler this morning but v pleasant this afternoon.
It hasn't been an incident-free weekend though - we flew out Friday afternoon, and at the very last possible moment (50 feet to go...) the pilot elected to 'go around' at Nice, and after about 20 mins of prevarication, diverted to Marseille. So our first proper weekend on le bateau started with a 2 hour flight arriving 5.5 hours late.
And then ... Started the engines yesterday evening and got a 'low coolant' evc alarm. Went down into the engine room and Voila! Big puddle of collant under the port engine. On investigation, the hose to the calorifier had been misrouted and has been chafing against what I presume to be the supercharger clutch ... And eventually, nature took its course and now there is a big leak. Grrr doesn't get close.
On the plus side, I've had a very pleasant weekend of 'excuse me, are you jimmy the builder?', from forumites Portofino (by proxy) and Wakeup. And we've definitely eaten (a bit too) well. And the mole sud poose have all been on fine form as usual - great ro meet the newest member MRC - hope the shorepower worked out ok!
Finally, we had an enjoyably diverting walk around the Mandelieu La Napoule boat show yesterday - I'll post some pics when I get back.
Cheers
Jimmy
It hasn't been an incident-free weekend though - we flew out Friday afternoon, and at the very last possible moment (50 feet to go...) the pilot elected to 'go around' at Nice, and after about 20 mins of prevarication, diverted to Marseille. So our first proper weekend on le bateau started with a 2 hour flight arriving 5.5 hours late.
great ro meet the newest member MRC - hope the shorepower worked out ok!
Cheers
Jimmy
Finally, six weeks after the boat left the UK, we've made it out from La Rague for the first time, and we are currently anchored up between the Iles de Lerins off Cannes. This is about an hour ago:
Cheers
Jimmy
