French Riviera

Bonjour
Well, to update from the last post..... I think I said something about leaving Barcelona and going along the French coast. Well, we had a slight detour when we tried to leave Spain and enter France. We had an unlucky run in with the French border patrol.
Just to give a tip...... you should always ask to have your passport stamped when you enter a new country. When we entered Switzerland and presented our passports they just looked at them and sent us on through. We thought this odd and I was a little disappointed. I mean what is the point of having pages in a passport if you do not get to fill them up with stamps of all the places you have been. But well... I thought if they do not need to stamp them then okay. So then when we headed to France they just wanted to look at them and same in Spain. Now when we crossed the border in France, for the second time, they of course just wanted to look at them. Except one man became interested in Camilo's passport and started to flip through it. They took him off to the office and of course I followed. Since there is a slight language barrier we didn't really know what was going on but after a little while find out that there is a problem because he doesn't have any stamps showing that he arrived in Europe. I show them that i don't either but that doesn't matter, I'm fine since I am American. So they only have a problem with Camilo. To make a really long story short, they sent me back to Spain to wait on Camilo and not too many hours after they deliver him and tell him to fix his problem in Spain. Even though we have proof that we spent 2 nights in Paris- that doesn't matter. We go back to Barcelona where they tell us to fix our problem where we entered, which is back in Switzerland. How do we get? We cannot cross the French border using our $1000 railpass so we have to find a flight. We fly to Geneva, get stamps in our passport and then after talking to the French border patrol and feeling like an idiot, we then make our way to the coast just like we planned. So we found a town called St. Raphael and camped out there for 4 nights and then went about an hour to Cannes. We have not spotted anyone famous yet but we still have one last night. Tonight is our last night here before heading to Torino, Italy to meet my mom. The coast is nice but not like the beaches in Mexico. I don't think anything will compare and we have both been spoiled by that. Not that you should really compare the two because they are totally different and it's nice to experience something new but if I had my choice I would pick the Caribbean any day.