La Côte d’Azur

I love to visit foreign countries! One of my favorite until now is France, I must say that the lovely Cote d’Azur blew me away in terms of the expectation I had before arriving. Last spring I had the pleasure to spend one week with a host family in Antibes, a rather small village at the Cote d’Azur. Going there with my class, I thought it will be a boring journey full of visiting museums (but I kind of liked Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall) , without any free time. Surprise! We visited a lot of museums BUT had much time for ourselves as well. Together with a friend we had the nicest host family one could have! They were friendly from the first moment on and made us feel comfortable at their flat. We improved our French a lot by playing with our host siblings, they were 2 and 4 years old, so they didn’t try to be polite but just laughed when we made any mistakes – which was cute and, as I said, helped us a lot! In the mornings we attended school or let’s say, we wasted time. After lunch we visited another city every day.

From Nice to Cannes, Grasse and St.Tropez, in between we stopped by in some small villages in the middle of nowhere. As we were free to do what we

want to after having visited everything important with our 

teachers, we went shopping or walked on the seaside and enjoyed the perfect weather. I must say, it was beautiful! All the cities were great, except St.Tropez which was a little bit disappointing when you know it only from movies or songs (it didn’t seem like a party location during day, there was nothing to do or to look at…)

If I will ever have the possibility to go there again, I would surely do it. France is a lovely country with many different faces, the old monuments, the sunny seaside, enormous cities like Nice, small villages that create a special atmosphere, … And if you think about the French people as arrogant you are wrong, really. I didn’t meet anybody who wasn’t nicely smiling and helpful when we got lost (which happened way to often!) All in all, I miss France since I left, it was hard not to cry when we had to go back home, mostly because I really liked my host family and the kids cried when we said good-bye.. One day I will for sure visit them again.

Really, go to France if you can, it is gorgeous and there are so many places to be seen – fall in love with the beauty of the country and even more the people there!

Enjoy your journey :)