Ile St. Honorat

Saturday was spent hopping a boat to the Ile St. Honorat where there is a monastery. The monks who live there make wine, beer, honey and liquer. The island itself is absolutely beautiful! It reminded me a lot of home with the smell of pine trees in the air.

We wandered through the little island off the coast of Cannes. There are two of them, Ile St. Marguerite is home to the man in the iron mask and Ile St. Honorat is the home to the monastery. We were surrounded by older french tourists bussed in for the day, but we managed to explore the island without seeing a lot of people.

Vineyard!
We climbed up the old part of the monastery.


The picture above is where they would heat canon balls and then fire them at people.
We had watched the film "The Life Aquatic" the night before, so we thought it would be necessary to reference it


There were lizards everywhere!!

The weekend was spent relaxing from our trip to Paris and preparing ourselves for spring break. I spent most of it sunning myself on our balcony and wandering around downtown through the antique market. I have had the pleasure of making friends with an Australian couple. The women was in my french class for the first month and has been inviting me and a few others over for dinner on occasion! It's great to get a homecooked meal as well and both of them are so nice and in their upper 20s. They moved to France for his job and it is interesting hearing about the immigration process to come here.

Otherwise, the sun has finally decided to make itself a permanent thing around here. We used to get a few days of sunshine and then it rained, but now it is almost 70degrees everyday and is only suppoed to get warmer! It has been getting slightly more touristy around here as well. It's kind of funny because I see myself being weirded out by the tourists since I have been living here for awhile now. I am getting more and more excited for the Film Festival because I have signed up for an internship. If I do not end up getting one, I think a friend and I are going to try and work on boats/yachts/mansionsonwater to make a little money and mingle with the rich people. By mingle I mean work for...same difference!