dj_ivocha on 24/8/2020 at 14:04
The food was nice, but we couldn't find much stuff from other regions of France, like boeuf bourguignon or coq au vin, which I'd have liked to try. But we didn't look too hard and chose cheaper restaurants, so... This being the Côte d'Azur there was a lot of fish and seafood and most of what we tried was delicious. Only the Bouillabaisse that we tried in Toulon was not really worth the 23 Euro, especially considering there were only 3 fairly small pieces of fish that were put in the soup itself and not served separately as shown on (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouillabaisse) Wikipedia. I mean, that too was delicious, but I'd have expected the price to be 10-12 at most.
As to the too fine sand - it really was. The individual grains were like 1/5th of the size I'm used to. It feels almost more like dust than sand and sticks everywhere because of that. It's also very hard or even almost impossible to build sand castles because of that. I guess you can almost call it silt already? When walking on it the feeling is interesting, but not bad at all and in the water I think it might even be slightly better than coarser sand.
Briareos H on 25/8/2020 at 14:46
Damn I didn't even think about giving restaurant recommendations in Toulon, I dropped the ball, sorry! But I'm very happy that you had a good time and that you managed to find suitable beaches around. Porquerolles has a few gorgeous ones but they are really narrow and frustrating to navigate during the high season.
SubJeff on 26/8/2020 at 06:41
Quote Posted by dj_ivocha
As to the too fine sand - it really was. The individual grains were like 1/5th of the size I'm used to. It feels almost more like dust than sand and sticks everywhere because of that. It's also very hard or even almost impossible to build sand castles because of that. I guess you can almost call it silt already? When walking on it the feeling is interesting, but not bad at all and in the water I think it might even be slightly better than coarser sand.
Oh, that doesn't sound pleasant at all. I've never encountered such sand in that case, which (given my like of beaches and visitation of them whenever possible) I'm surprised at.
It still sounds better than most British beaches! Note: I've never been to Cornwall and I hear the beaches there are as nice as on the continent.