Thursday 6th April Leaving Laon Tuesday morning it didn’t take us long to reach our next aire, it had a great rating in Camper Contact, it was clean, spacious and very well laid out. There was space for 6 motorhomes…
Home at Laon
Monday 3rd April Up early Sunday morning and after a very short stroll found this great vantage point for Amiens Cathedral. We set off heading East passing through the Somme battlefields. Here, the cemeteries are even closer together with monuments…
Hoist by my own petard
Saturday 1st April From Richebourg we took a gentle drive towards Arras, but along the way stopped at a few places recommended by the Vicarious Books “Road Trip Europe – The Great War and More” which we will be dipping…
Stella Gets a Brain Implant
Thursday 30th March It had to happen one day and Monday was as good a day as any. Stella needed to have her maps upgraded but she really didn’t want to play ball. I thought that it had all been…
Emergency Dash to Europe
Thursday 23rd March Things are getting desperate and we now have to make an emergency trip to France to ease the situation. Ferry is booked for next Wednesday. But first… I know it’s been a while since I last posted…
The Boots from Brazil
Tuesday 6th December Things are going to go very quiet on the blog front for the next month, there will be one or two bits of excitement but it looks like we might be settling down until the New Year.…
Ready or not – here we come.
Friday 2nd December Thank goodness it was Clive Brooker’s birthday yesterday, he told me it was curry night in Spoons so I instantly knew it was Thursday. I have trouble remembering which day it is but Lucy has far more…
Sur le Pont…
Wednesday 30th November Let me introduce you to some of my new friends. Drinking red wine is all very well but once in a while you need to treat yourself to some proper laughing juice. We’ve met the Perlembourg before,…
Bad Death in Contat
Monday 28th November We kind of got stuck in Jouques, free aire and free electric does that to us. And we had to find space for the “Where you going to put that”. I spent all day moving things around,…
Where’re you going to put that then?
Saturday 26th November Amazingly not only had we read the bus timetable correctly but we had also managed to have the right money ready for the bus. €1.05 each for a 30km journey, not too bad. We hadn’t gone to…