End of the Road
Our last couple of days of our trip were spent in a remote part of rural Brittany, on the beautifully kept grounds of a Manor House. We had made a reservation as we are getting into peak holiday season and wanted to sure of a place to stay before boarding our ferry from Cherbourg on […]
Island Life
We’ve just spent a wonderful 4 days on the island of Guernsey, where we were so generously hosted by our lovely friends who have lived, worked and raised their family here for almost 40 years. Leaving Tigín on a ‘sleepover’ in a campsite in St Malo we took the 2 hour ferry crossing to the […]
A Mythical Place – Mont Saint Michel
That myths and legends surround Mont Saint Michel seems fitting given its fairytale like presence as it rises up out of the sea off the coast of Normandy. With a history going back as far as the year 708, Mont St Michel has been a Benedictine monastery, a place of pilgrimage, a fortification, a prison […]
We Came Across an Old Friend
We’ve been making our way steadily west across France. We spent two nights in Orient Forest Regional Nature Park (Parc naturel régional de la Forêt d’Orient) between the shores of Lake Orient (Lac d’Orient) and the lovely old town of Troyes. This area is 170,000 acres of protected woodland and lakes in the Champagne-Ardenne region. […]
Not Everything is Rosey
On the road again and our first stop is in the Lorraine region of France. Our plan is to head west over the coming week to the Brittany area where we will be meeting up with friends. We spent a couple of nights at the municipal campsite in Parroy, a tiny village on the north […]
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