We’re staying put another day, so that we can coincide our arrival in Epernay with our friends’. It’s not terribly hard to take, another day, another day amongst the vines and champagne houses. Thunderstorms hit […]
We’re staying put another day, so that we can coincide our arrival in Epernay with our friends’. It’s not terribly hard to take, another day, another day amongst the vines and champagne houses. Thunderstorms hit […]
After the frenetic pace of the past few days, it’s almost a relief to be back on the road. We leave Paris in the morning and it’s surprising how quickly we’re back in farmland. The […]
Oh! The loveliest of days in Paris today, far away from the maddening crowds, spent amongst gorgeous food, Parisienne locals and glorious gardens. We have an early start, straight in to the Marche Bastille. If […]
The morning sees us Paris bound. We’ve not approached Paris from this angle before and it offers two surprises. The first is that Paris is adjacent to a forest. A forest that boasts deer and […]
Double the Les Plus Beaux Villages visitations today, which might have been a wee bit ambitious. Particularly combined with lunch in between. Oops. It’s very hard to resist a traditional French lunch when the rest […]
Day 30. Where did that time go, pray tell? Surely we landed mere moments ago. The morning sees us driving south, through large scale farm land. This is the serious business end of farming: endless […]
It’s our last day in France and despite the ferry leaving late in the afternoon, the day slips by in what seems moments. There’s a last delicious lunch to be had, of course, and the […]
It’s hard to believe, but today might just have been our first day of “down” time. A lazy, genuine sleep in, croissants for breakfast thanks to a mobile boulangerie and the toughest decision of the […]