Day 6 in Southern France: Skipping through the Countryside

As I've been doing all week, I'm here to continue my travel-log from the time I spent in on the French Riviera (see it from the beginning here, here, here, and here).

On Thursday of last week, as a group we decided to hop in a tour van and ride around to see some of the other cities and towns that sit on the Mediterranean and in the mountains rising from it. At 9am, we hopped in with our friendly tour guide Pascal and set off for an 8-hour saunter through the countryside.

Though the tour unfortunately didn't allow us much time to spend in each individual city, it was well worth the experience of simply passing through. More pictures and Wikipedia links (!) after the jump.