Thankfuly, today promised to be far easier that yesterday. All but the final handful of kilometres were on autoroute, much of which were toll roads so the traffic should be lighter. And so it proved; we calmly covered the 600kms/400mls…
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Ewe Day
Having retired early, to bed, I mean, with great expectation, we were rudely awoken at 2:15 AM by high winds and lashing rain. Eventually we managed to return to sleep only to be awoken, as planned, by the alarm at…
In Sheep’s Clothing
Seven days to go until we clamber on our ferry to head off for our lambing assignment. Our ferry should be due to dock in Calais at about 11:30 AM (Wednesday, 25th November) so we ought to have a comfortable…
“On the Lam” to France (again)
One of the highlights of our ambition-realizing first-year-of-retirement 6-week trip to France in spring/early summer, 2006, was our discovery of what we consider to be the finest campsite we know. We found ourselves on a small (25 pitches) camping à…
France, 2009 – Retrospective
We’ve been back from France for two weeks now and Autumn is definitely with us. I’ve finally finished sorting and processing our photographs which naturally jog the memories and prompt a little backward reflection. The weather was great. I’m even…
Eating Frogs Legs
This is by way of another retrospective post from our sadly now complete recent tour around La Belle France. I’m still engaged in processing our digital images trying to select those that I think will make a representative web album…
Franco-Roman Innumeracy?
I think so, not that I’m a great expert on Roman Numerals. At home processing our collection of photographs, this is something of an addendum to our recently completed trip around France. One of the places Carol and I visited…
Early Ferry
I had a reservation on P&O’s 1:10 PM ferry from Calais to Dover. It’s about 120mls/200kms from Neufchatel-en-Bray to Calais, about 2½ hrs towing. We were ready to leave the campsite by 9:00 AM so we hit the road and…
Last Stop
It was an easy 120mls/200kms from Chartres to our now habitual final stop in France at Neufchâtel-en-Bray in Normandy. Neufchâtel-en-Bray is a pleasant though unremarkable town in many ways, though it does boast an appellation contrôlée cheese which, I must…
Chartres
Our most well trodden route into and out of France takes us round the cathedral city of Chartres. The surrounding countryside is quite flat with big skies, huge fields and little or no hedgerows. It’s pretty darn dull on the…
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