What a fabulous place Cassis was! Just ‘up the road’ from Marseilles but so much nicer we were told and correct, I’m sure it is! Probably a typical Mediterranean seaside port but very touristy and a great day for a boat ride out to the ‘Calanques’ – a one hour …
Have just had a very quiet day today here in Aix-en Provence in the south of France. 2 days of travelling and eventually arriving late yesterday afternoon after a very stressful driving session in Aix through tiny little streets and not really knowing where our accommodation was until – “are …
Not too much happened today – left Bordeaux and headed east towards Carcassonne for the night. Was a bit of a slow drive as I for some reason was really tired so need a few rest stops along the way. Carcassonne is a fabulous walled city which on arrival we strolled …
Had a great day today – a pre-arranged tour for 7 of us, from Australia and the US all tripped out to another of the famous Bordeaux wine regions “St Emilion’. Reminded me very much of the Italian hillside town of San Gimigiano (if that’s the correct spelling??), as a …
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 …
