Fabulous weather today so we set off in the car heading for a pre-plotted route to take us in and around the Medoc area of Bordeaux. Here is where the great Chateaux’s of the Bordeaux area are – Chateaux Margaux, Letuer, Mouton, I’m thinking I’m clever now but there’s actually …
Must have been Paris as the stressful place, but I’m starting to feel a little better now about driving here although still have my tricky moments! Much of the driving the last 2 days to reach Bordeaux has been tollways and we’ve now learnt the ticketing and payment system a …
PHOTOS First stop today was the Villers-Bretonneux memorial outside the city of Amiens. This memorial represents 11,000 names on the walls of the memorial of those died in battle in the area. Next stop was in the village of Villers-Bretonneux itself and to the Victoria School and the Australian Museum. …
Photos – near the end of this lot. The visits to all these sites are great for Kemm and I and most of what I’ve written in the last day or so is so that we can keep track of what we’ve done but may seem a little over the …
Photos here One of our planned activities whilst here has been to do a ‘Battlefield’ run for Kemm so this morning we headed to another area in Paris ( a hotel at which we will stay one more night when we return from tour), where we met up with out …
Lots of walking the last 2 days but had a wonderful time just taking in the Paris culture and the people within. It’s a fabulous place – nothing like our vast shopping centres all under one roof, everything here is within tiny shops all set within mostly the ground floor …
PHOTOS The day began with us having passed through 16 hours in bed – the body has needed some catching up and a 4pm ‘lie-down’ late yesterday afternoon turned into an all night event with both of us waking around 4am for a couple of hours then another 2 or …
Arrived in Paris and made it to our hotel about 8am and fully expected to leave our luggage and wander which is exactly what happened. I did however grab out of my suitcase, my heavy red jacket and my camera. Badly need for the jacket and its about 15 degrees …
Just a VERY small section of Shanghai airport – manged to spend a “delightful” grrrrrrrr… 6 hours here!!!!!! grrrr….. Should have only be 3! grrrr…… None the less an amzing airport . . ggrrrrr…. Beautiful gardens around the Forbidden City The Red Wall is the outer wall of the Forbidden …
