Antistandard Journal

We set off to France in May, 2010 from Perth, Australia. The trip originally was planned to take 3 weeks but eventually took 3 months. Along the way we

• visited friends
• used a large shopping bag to ski down a snow covered slope next to a major freeway
• ate dinner at a restaurant on a bridge
• played a lot of table tennis in camping grounds
• surfed Biarritz and Anglet
• roller-skated around Paris and
• drank Champagne from the cellars of Moet Chandon.

To see where we went, please view the map below.

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Video montage of the roadtrip

Trip Highlight – The Calanques

The Calanques are long limestone cliffs that extend out into the Mediterranean Sea to form bays of crystal clear warm water. The strangest thing about this place is that less than half the French people we talked to about the Calanques had no idea what they are or where to find them. They seemed to me like a perfect place to go to on a road trip if you lived in France and there seemed to be a lot of people there, but I presume most of them were tourists.