After getting all of our supplies, we retired to the hotel. Katie bought us 2 chairs on the hotel’s beach, where we camped out for the rest of the day. Katie’s in heaven! Jordan’s kind of miserable, because he has to be completely covered up, thanks to his vicious Maine sunburn, which has cooked him a bright red color.
For lunch, we wandered our little town and settled on a corner café. A nice middle-aged woman was our waitress (she’s also the owner, we think). She didn’t speak any English, so Jordan muddled by in French until a neighboring table intervened. Turns out they’re an English couple who retired to J-le-P! They gave us lots of tips about being there, including going to the open market on Thursday in Antibes.
Katie went to the spa for a massage, and then we floated in the spa’s pool for a while. The Mediterranean was a little too cold, but the pool was heated, so that was a no-brainer.
For dinner, we walked over to J-le-P’s restaurant row. It’s a little street blocked off from cars, with restaurants on either side. All of the restaurants have outdoor seating on the street, very nice! We ended up at a Vietnamese place. Interestingly, everything cooked Asian-style in France is “Wok” – for example, “Wok poulet” or “Wok tofu”. We also discovered that if you order sandwiches “Americaine”, they put french fries in your sandwich! If that’s American style, how come we’ve never seen it done that way in America?
