Still in Strasbourg. Still living with a grumpy bear with a sore foot. Still (both) impatient with the challenges this brings. Still want to whack him with a bat occasionally. Not with any sense of […]
Still in Strasbourg. Still living with a grumpy bear with a sore foot. Still (both) impatient with the challenges this brings. Still want to whack him with a bat occasionally. Not with any sense of […]
Now I’m not sure how it’s pronounced in French, but there’s no doubt that in English, this is a fabulously good town name. It’s another unexpected stop that proves quite lovely. We’re back in the […]
The trouble with Europe, and I say “trouble” very much tongue in cheek, is that there are too many choices: stay in Metz, or hit the road to a Les Plus Beaux Village? In the […]
Great plans for this morning: up early and off to the covered market, which the tourist office assures us is open on Sunday, but it’s not…sigh. Not on Saturday either, which is unusual. We actually […]
This morning brings us to Epernay, the heart of the Champagne region. The drive in offers an up close view of the harvest – the size of the job ahead beggars belief. Endless kilometres of […]
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 […]
Sigh. Our last day in Paris. They’d probably take away my licence to be a girl if I didn’t at least pop into a few shops. We start our day the Opera, another of my […]
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 […]