We’re back on the Les Plus Beaux Villages trail today with a visit to not one, but two pretty villages. Our journey to Lods takes us into the land of Comte – France’s famous semi-hard […]

We’re back on the Les Plus Beaux Villages trail today with a visit to not one, but two pretty villages. Our journey to Lods takes us into the land of Comte – France’s famous semi-hard […]
One of the best things about meandering in the motorhome with only the vaguest of directions in mind, is the discoveries you make along the way. It’s in this mindset that we cross paths with […]
In the game of weather roulette, we wake to rain free skies. Yes! Off to Parfondeval we go, as fast as our little legs will carry us. Parfondeval is quite unusual amongst the Les Plus […]
As far as plans go, I didn’t ask a lot from today. All I wanted was to stock the larder with local goodies (wine! cheese!) at one of the excellent French supermarkets, make a little […]
The Les Plus Beaux Villages are each delightful in their own way, either for their cultural, historical or architectural uniqueness, but every so often we come across one that’s so perfectly charming it stands out […]
Thanks to the vagaries of satellite navigation we find ourselves in two Les Plus Beaux Villages today. Driving to Angles sur l’Anglin in search of a boulangerie, we stumble across the very pretty Saint Benoit […]
Having fallen headlong in love with the Bourgogne region I have a bad case of the “I don’t want to go home” blues. It doesn’t help stopping at a Carrefour. My favourite way of discovering […]
Whilst hair-raising for us atop a Ligurian mountain top, the storms in Europe have wrecked destruction making news as far as Australia. With landslides, flooding, felled trees and drownings, 11 people have been reported dead […]
Having made our decision to make our way back to France, Chris speeds up the process via the autostrada. Along the way, we see ingenious greenhouses, terraced into the mountains. We cross out of Italy […]