There are places you travel to with meticulous planning and others you randomly alight to with infinite delight. The latter is the case with Castellane, a small alpine village set along the Verdon river at […]
2024 Day 59 Gorges du Verdon
Having ending up at the dam end Lac de Sainte Croix I had thought our opportunity to cruise the Gorges du Verdon lost. But no, in a rare display of willingness to backtrack, Himself sets […]
2024 Days 57 & 58 – Lac Sainte Croix
The call of Lac Sainte Croix’s blue proves impossible to resist. Mountains and water are an unbeatable combination in my book. What I didn’t count on, is Himself’s preference to aim for the lake’s northern […]
2024 Days 55 & 56 – Moustiers Sainte-Marie
We’ve quite inadvertently landed in the spectacular mountain setting of Moustiers Sainte-Marie. The village sits at a 640 metre elevation, impossibly perched between two vertical rises. Being Provence, the only way to it is up a […]
2024 Day 54 – Lavender, so much lavender
Bouyed by yesterday’s glimpse of lavender, I’m on a mission. Lavender in full bloom, I’ll settle for no less. Himself dutifully plots a path and we’re off. Well almost off. First there’s wine to be […]
2024 Day 52 – Abbaye Notre Dame de Senanque and Roussillon
The weather gods like to have their little laugh. I thought we had the upper hand this time – surely visiting Provence in spring would spare us its usual ferocious summer heat? But alas no, […]
2024 Day 51 – Menerbes
So here we are under the Provincial sun and despite being Spring’s last gasp, it’s hot, hot, hot. The sun’s splitting the stones as the Irish would say. 33 degrees to be precise. Menerbes is […]
2024 Day 48 – 50 Camargue
I didn’t realise it yesterday, but we’ve officially crossed into South East France, a milestone of sorts on this meandering journey of ours. Himself has determined that we’re ‘near’ Camargue, near being a relatively loose […]
2024 Days 46 & 47 – The Gorges of Tarn
The Gorges of Tarn. Sounds straight out of Lord of The Rings doesn’t it? So named for the gorges gouged out though the limestone plateaus of the Sauveterre and Mejean by the Tarn River over […]
2024 Day 45 – Sainte-Eulalie-d’Olt
A short hop from Saint-Come-d’Olt, set on a meander of the Lot River, is the Les Plus Village of Sainte-Eulalie-d’Olt. Best of all, we learn that otters live here! Otties!!! Built around a 15th century […]
