Sunday 3rd September The drive from Avignon to Nice went smoothly and we found the location to collect our apartment keys and, then, the apartment with relative ease. Our accommodation for the next week was Limoncello, a 2 bedroom / 2 bathroom + powder room apartment sourced through Nice Pebbles. We had used this rental… More

Saturday 2 nd September It was a beautiful sunny day for our drive to Avignon. We made one stop on the way and that was to see another Roman monument, Pont du Gard , a Roman aqueduct from the first century and it was a most impressive structure. This was a most popular site, drawing… More

Wed 30th Aug: Carcassonne ⇒ Montpellier Our journey from Carcassonne to Montpellier was only a couple of hours but we couldn’t check in to the apartment in Montpelier until 4 pm, so we decided to visit the seaside area of Sete on the way. This, in hindsight, proved to be a very ambitious task; the… More

Tue 29th Aug The drive from Bordeaux to Carcassonne was pleasantly uneventful and we arrived at our hotel at around 2.30 pm. Our accommodation for the one night was at the 4* Mercure Carcassonne La Cité hotel and our room was nice enough and totally adequate but, after our recent 4* hotel stay in St… More

Sun 27th Aug It was another beautiful morning so Mark went for a bike ride and I took another walk along the river. There were more people out today which was surprising given I had thought a Sunday would be more quiet around here. Our only activity for the day was a 3.5 hr Bordeaux… More

Thurs 24th Aug:  Loire Valley ⇒ Bordeaux It was a rather sultry morning for our last walk around Saumur and we actually had a fair bit of rain on the first part of the drive down to Bordeaux. It cleared up for the second past of the trip though and we then clocked 410 degrees… More

Mon 21st Aug It was a bit overcast in St Malo this morning but I still ventured out for one last walk. Our drive to the Loire Valley was about 3 hours long but we stopped off along the way at Chateau d’Angers to fill in some time before our 3 pm check in. Chateau… More

Sat 19th Aug Bayeux, Normandy ⇒ St Malo, Brittany It was a beautiful sunny morning which made for good traveling weather and ideal conditions for visiting the island of Mont St Michel, one of the most popular French tourist sites after the Eiffel Tower. The general advice had been to avoid the place during holidays… More

Wed 16th Aug: Honfleur  ⇒ Bayeux Today was a day of travel from Honfleur to Bayeux. The journey was only about 2 hours but we were filling in the time between the Honfleur check out and the Bayeux check in with visit to some sights along the way. Our first stop was at Beuvron-en-Auge  which… More

Mon 14th Aug: Lille, Hauts-de-France  ⇒ Honfleur, Normandy Our journey from Lille, in Hauts-de-France, to Honfleur, in Normandy, was just over 300 km but it would take us through some areas with significant WW1 memorials. Knowing this I had planned a few stops along the way so we could pay our respects to those brave… More