Had a super comfortable flight on British Air, sort of a fluke, but we ended up in first class with real sheets on a flat bed and a pair of pajamas. We had dinner in the lounge before flying so we could sleep longer. Decided not to include photos because it's just not that interesting and might give rise to uncontrollable envy  ;-). When we arrived at Heathrow, even though we were flying regular class down to Marseilles, we got to have a great British breakfast in the lounge and showers. It's definitely the way to go if you're very financially comfortable or your dad's an airline pilot or owns an airline. Or if you've built up a lot of points (our method of choice).

Stayed with our great friend Annie, who lives outside of Marseiles. She has been super busy with her job and was in Torino that day, so some house guests kindly picked us up at the airport, Vianny with one of his charming 3 daughters, Lu. Annie drove like a mad woman back from Torino and arrived to have pizza with us all. Great pizza; so much for our avoiding-wheat diet. In fact, we have had to pretty much forget avoiding wheat in France.

I seem to have lost a beautiful photo of the girls, but here are 2 of them, Lisa and Alix, 3 and a half and 5. They lived for Annie's swimming pool.

Chuck has recently built and pretty much designed a beautiful, very comfortable beach house. Incredible location as you can see; this is the view from one of his decks. Blistering hot day, but the cool ocean breezes kept things very pleasant.