Wednesday 11th November La Rochelle, say it to loud and you can’t help but sound like a Frenchman, or woman – it just rolls off the tongue. We left Isle de Noirmoutier on Monday morning and took the coast road…
Harbour Pig
Monday 9th November We left you at Le Croisic in the rain but with wifi. We sat indoors for most of the day but it wasn’t wasted. I reorganised the library by putting all of the books alphabetically instead of…
Customer Service – French Style
Friday 6th November We left Damgan Wednesday morning and moved along to a town called Guerande which had a free aire just out of town and an easy walk into the town centre. Our guide book describes Guerande thus:- “No…
Stone Me
Tuesday 3rd November We went to Port Louis Monday morning after a quick shop round Lidls on the way. We also tried grabbing a bit of McDonalds wifi but couldn’t get on so there could be a big lump of…
Concarneau – it’s not the right place.
Sunday 1st November I have a picture in my mind of a French town that we drove through nearly 20 years ago and I wanted to go back and revisit it. Unfortunately it isn’t Concarneau and my search continues. There…
Dam – there’s nothing there!
Friday 30th October We didn’t wake up until 10am yesterday, we had plans of where we were maybe going but by the time Lucy had let the water heat up for her shower, had the shower, washed up, dried up…
Fort with a view
Wednesday 28th October Tuesday was a bit of a wash out and something to be forgotten about. After Monday’s glorious weather, Tuesday was mostly overcast with plenty of drizzle. Our next port of call (port, get it?) was St Malo;…
Sur le Mont
Monday 26th October OK, I know it isn’t Sur le Mont, it should be Sur le Pont but I’m running out of blog titles! Apologies for the last two as well, in fact all of them to be honest. Can…
Malaise in Falaise Part Deux
Sunday 25th October The clocks want backwards in the night so we get an extra hours sleep – not. 7am there is loads of crashing and banging outside the van so I get up to see what is happening. A…
Malaise in Falaise
Saturday 24th October Beep, beep, beep, first thing this morning, it was just the baker coming round at 9am. A couple of dozen more vans had turned up in the dark last night, one even squeezed in next to us…