Wed 27th Aug It was an overcast morning but that suited Mark as he had a rather grueling bike ride up to Mount Ventoux planned for today; something he’d been looking forward to for over a year! He rose just after 5.30 am for the 90 minute drive to the start of the ride and… More
Sat 23rd Aug Our Provence Apartment: here It was quite an ordeal for all of us to reach Mallemort. Tom and Tara flew in from Rome then caught a train, Matt, Annabelle & Teddy caught the train from Paris to Avignon and then hired a car. Brett, Ali and Charlie drove from Montpellier and we… More
Wed 20th Aug Our Apartment: Apartment Rousseau at the complex Beaune Sweet Home. The drive down to Beaune from Troyes took about 2.5 hrs and we made into our apartment by 2 pm. The place was right in the middle of the Old Town so well located for sight seeing. It was a good sized… More
Sun 17th Aug Our Troyes hotel: here Leaving the Paris apartment, collecting our car from near Charles de Gaulle airport and the drive down to Troyes all went fairly smoothly and we arrived at the La Licorne Hotel & Spa just before our 3 pm check in. This was a lovely and rather grand establishment… More
Fri 15th Aug Our first activity this morning was a 3 hour walking tour at 9 am of Notre Dame Cathedral & Ile de la Cite booked through Viator but run by Letz Go City Tours. Our guide was very friendly and well informed so it was an interesting and worthwhile experience. Almost half of… More
Wed 13th Aug Our Paris apartment: here It was a fairly long day of travel with a morning flight from Heathrow to Paris and then a car transfer into the city but we arrived at 4 pm for check-in at our La Sorbonne district (5th Arrondissement) AirBnB apartment. We were delighted to find it was… More
Fri 8th Aug St Ives Apartment: Porthminster Apartment One: here and here. It was a lovely and mild, albeit cloudy, morning for our journey from Dartmouth to St Ives but we were glad for anything other than rain throughout this whole trip and, thus far, we’d been fairly lucky. There was some time to fill… More
Wed 6th Aug Our Dartmouth Apartment: here It was a 3 hour drive from Poole to Dartmouth and this took us just outside the western limit of the Jurassic Coast. We had left the County of Dorset and were now in the county of Devon, an area still renown for having a stunning coastline but… More
Sat 2nd Aug Our Poole Apartment: Here It was a beautiful sunny day for our drive down to Poole and we made it to our next accommodation by 1 pm. It was a nice, albeit compact, apartment however not overlooking Poole Harbour as we had initially thought, rather it overlooked a car park. It was… More
Wed 30th July It was an early start for us as we woke at 5:30 am but that wasn’t too bad given we had gone to bed at 7:30 pm the night before. It was overcast but, thankfully, not raining so we decided to head out for an early morning walk up to Hyde Park.… More