Author: John Curd

Le Puy-en-Velay Market

We appear to have lucked out; having arrived on Friday afternoon at Le Puy-en-Velay, we discovered that Saturday is market day. We set off this morning on foot for our first investigation. Our walk was a little further than we

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The Magic Pen

Time to pack up and head off to pastures new. We had decided to head for Le Puy-en-Velay in the Massif Central. When we are touring in France we use combination of Michelin maps, one of which is a large

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Tour de Fontaines-en-Sologne

We decided to move on tomorrow so this started as a day shopping for some essential supplies and filling the car with some essential diesel. Our range on a full tank is about 250 miles and we like to keep

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Tour de Blois

The sun was back today, more so than we’d expected from the forecast, so we set out to ride one of this region’s excellent cycle routes that was new to us. We’d head across La Loire and into Blois. Since

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A Busy Day for George

If there’s one slight drawback to this excellent camp site in Huisseau-sur-Cosson, it’s that charcoal barbecues are not allowed. That’s a common restriction in the south of France where there is a significant fire risk but it’s unusual this far

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Grey Skies

Cue for a song: What a difference a day makes, Twenty four little hours … Where had all the sun gone? We collected our pain chocolat for our first indulgent French breakfast and headed south under grey skies with intermittent

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Blue Headwinds

The sun greeted our morning departure for Dover and the 1:00 PM P&O ferry to Calais. We spent a casual hour or so loading the inevitable last-minute items, like food in the fridge and camera bags in the car, then

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France Tomorrow

Liz to the rescue! Having provided us with an excellent paella yesterday evening, Liz, our neighbour, has provided me with a spare mobile phone. Having destroyed mine  with a hefty dose of Persil Small and Mighty aided buy a Bosch

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Washing Everything

Today preparations for our approaching trip to France began in earnest. After a crack of dawn trip to Heathrow to collect a niece returning from Australia for a couple of weeks, Carol began by putting a load of washing in

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Copulation Wheels

In a very unusual spell of fine weather lasting precisely one day and in between a few chores like buying expensive Euros and fetching our caravan to make ready for our coming trip to France, I enjoyed a couple of

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