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…
Honfleur at last
Friday 23rd October At last we have arrived in Honfleur. We’ve sped past it dozens of times and thought afterwards that we really should have made some time to visit but we’ve always been on a mission previously, get to…
Maintaining a relationship
Tuesday 16th June It’s been 8 months on the road now and some of you are wondering how we have managed to maintain our relationship and still remain friends after spending so long in a confined space. Let me say…
Frankie keeps up with the Supercars
Monday 15th June Thursday was the open pits day where we were last blog but Friday was no racing day so we thought we’d cycle round the track, it’s only 8 miles up and down hills, we really thought we…
Le Mans or Bust
Thursday 12th June We ended up staying for five days at Saumur despite us having to pay €5.40 per night, sometimes you’re in the right place at the right time and it’s worth paying. We moved on to La Suze…
Every day is a Saturday
Friday 5th June Is it the 3rd today?, no, it’s the 2nd. Actually it’s the 4th – that’s how our conversations go, or, what day is it today? All the shops were shut yesterday so it might be Monday. Last…