A long awaited round 2 blog entry... Sorry, Laying in the sun, eating fois gras, hanging out with Bec and Trav ... its been tough!!
I finished my Job on M/Y Pink Champagne just under 2 weeks ago which was so perfect because Bec and Trav arrived here the next day. Things went a little pear shaped on champers, The bubbles were a little too small, anyway won't bore you with the details. I left the boat and moved into my friend James's studio apartment in Antibes which he doesn't stay in. James is the captain of one of Pete Townsends boats and such a lovely guy. Like I said the timing couldn't have been more perfect.
After many missed calls and facebook messages Bec and I finally got in touch with each other. I was climbing at a spot on coco beach where you can do deep water soloing ... its amazing. Definitely one of my favourite spots in Nice by far. like everywhere around the med the waters are so pristine, crystal clear blue, turquoise. The climbing is awesome, not too high but a few really nice over hangs and its perfect because when your too pumped you just fall into the water, although the first climb is always the easiest as wet hands make it harder but challenging...
So Bec rang and we decided to meet each other on Nice promenade.... I mentioned what i was wearing just in case she didn't recognize me from my awesome tan that I've been working on . As I was walking I could hardly contain my excitement .. had a bit of a bounce in my step. Bec saw me from about 200 meters away as i was trying to fumble with my camera to get the perfect shot, which of course never happened... All 3 of us actually did the the run towards each other on the promenade next to Nice beach and hugged and kissed .... i know were sickening.
10 days of laughter until we almost peed our pants.. good food that we all cooked every night and took a picture of every meal of course and lots of love which is exactly want I needed. The apartment is 2 mins from the beach so we did a lot of swimming and relaxing.... Feel really good for it.
James drove us and our gorgeous friend Dawn to Gorge du loup which actually means river of wolfs. Its this amazing river that runs from really high up in the mountains. The hick or down climb i should say was a little scary as we all pretty much had on thongs (flip flops for my none Aussie friends) it was all really steep gravel rock.. After the assistance of trees branches and basically anything we could hang onto.We reached a point half way were the drop was straight down but some nice person left us a rope that we could ab sail down. We reached the bottom and then walked up stream, sometimes on rocks and other times through water that came up to the shoulders holding bags up over our heads.Because i'm just a shortie i didn't have to carry anything apart from my towel which a still managed to get a little wet. Found the perfect spot where Travi found a massive boulder to jump off . I went up for the jump got to the top, looked down and felt so chicken scared. After syking myself up with the help of my friends I finally jumped... such an awesome feeling straight into fresh mountain water... Awesome.
James, Dawn and I dropped B and T off to the bus station last night on their way to Barcelona... i think i shedded a little tear.
In the mean time I received a phone call from an agent on Thursday offering me a job and asking me to fly to Barcelona the next day to work on a 43 meter motor yacht for one month which is perfect because Domi arrives like 10 days before I finish. It all happened so fast. Long story cut short, i am now going to Genoa tomorrow then taking a ferry to Olbia in Sardinia. The name of my new 43 meter Motor yacht is called Sedation...... Here i come x
