Oscar Wilde once famously said: “Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess”. He may well have been speaking about Versailles. In a world where one only had to dream of something to bring […]
2018 Day 117 – Nogent le Roi
Oh thank goodness. The fog has finally lifted: we have blue skies again. It’s still cold mind, but it’s so much nicer with the sun on your face. My morning buddies agree, wholeheartedly. But then […]
2018 Day 116 – Chateaudun
The morning sees us drive through open farmland, bare as far as the eye can see. Not that it can see far mind – fog still blankets the land, possibly even heavier than it was […]
2018 Day 115 – The one where nothing happens
Don’t ask me where the day went, it’s clear I haven’t a clue. It started normally enough, if a little later than usual. But by the time I’d inhaled my coffee and rebooted my brain, […]
2018 Day 114 – Valencay
Having enjoyed yesterday’s chateau visit, we make our way to Valencay, ostensibly to visit another, but when we arrive we find Le Chateau de Valencay closed for the season. Luckily there’s a tourist information office […]
2018 Day 113 – Montresor
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 […]
2018 Day 112 – Rain and rest
Well it took 112 days, but I think we finally managed a day of rest. Possibly only the second one on this trip. I don’t really count the first, trapped inside with raging storms. The […]
2018 Day 111 – Saint Benoit du Sault & Angles sur l’Anglin
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 […]
2018 Day 110 – Gargilesse-Dampierre
Christopher’s a man on a mission today with a long drive planned, taking us out of central France into the northwest. It means spending most of the day on the road, rendering me a little […]
2018 Day 109 – Charroux
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 […]
