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For dessert we decided to share the famous Harry’s Toadstool, which is made of white chocolate, fresh raspberries, mascarpone mousse, iced vanilla parfait and pistachio biscotti crunch served with warm pistachio sauce.

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Aftab chose the Pappardelle al Ragu Bolognese, which I had *major* food envy of! It’s his favourite Italian dish and it looked so delicious.

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I then chose the incredible Lemon sole fillet served with a Gavi Di Gavi wine sauce with clams, samphire, parsley & Amalfi lemon. On the side I opted for tenderstem broccoli and a tomato & basil salad, which are my two favourite sides that I get every time!

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As well as excursions and activities, Hillside Beach Club also puts on a number of shows, parties, and silent movie nights on the beach. It’s such a great place for all ages as there really is something for everyone! I loved the Pasha White Party on the Saturday night, but I will say that if you’re hoping to catch up on sleep whilst at Hillside you might want to take some earplugs as the parties don’t stop until 11pm, and you can hear the music *very* clearly whilst trying to sleep as we all discovered on a couple of other nights when we weren’t actually at the party.

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One morning we also drove out to Kayakoy village which is another thing that all guests are able to do. We walked around the village for about half an hour, and it felt so eerie. Apparently the Greeks used to live there but a lot of them were killed during the massacres of Greeks and other Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. This meant the majority of Kayakoy’s 6,500 inhabitants either died or became propertyless refugees and were sent back to Greece. The history of the village is hauntingly sad, and the entire town turned to rubble when a huge earthquake struck in the 1950s.

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There are so many things to do at Hillside Beach Club! Kids can do everything from learning how to DJ to learning to sail, while adults can get involved with various workshops, watersports activities, and diving.

09/06/2022

After two nights in Monte Carlo we drove to Cannes via Cap Ferrat, had two nights in Cannes, and then drove to Nice via Antibes before flying back to London. It was the perfect week and we had the best time roadtripping the French Riviera!

09/06/2022

Between my trips to Spain and France I had a great couple of months back in London settling into my old life. One of my best friends from Perth came to visit me in London for a few weeks, and while she was here we had a weekend trip to Bath, and then a week in France. Ever since we were 16-years-old we’d been planning to do a big Europe trip, and finally, over ten years later, we were finally doing the place at the top of the list; Paris. We’d both been to the city before, but never together. We had a weekend staying in the famous Shangri-La in Paris, and just did all the touristy things and had the best girls weekend in Paris!We then flew down to Nice and picked up a hire car, and began our French Riviera adventure. It’s a trip I’ve been wanting to do for years, and we decided to do it to mark the due date of my lost baby. I tend to go on holiday on difficult dates (I wrote about this for Refinery29 recently), and always go away at the end of May on the anniversary of the loss of my first baby. Sometimes I go far away, other times it’s close by and just somewhere peaceful and beautiful. But anyway, we were in Monaco on the date itself, and spent the day by the swimming pool at Hotel Metropole, eating mountains of ice-cream, and then sipping on champagne and cocktails at Hotel de Paris Monte Carlo whilst looking out over the Côte d’Azur.

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