Hi everyone Currently sitting having a gourmet french picnic and swimming in lake borget, the biggest fresh water lake in France next to the town of aix-les-baines, where we arrived yesterday and are staying for the next 5 days. Ok so how did we get here from our last post. We have just come from spending three wonderful days in Lyon, a beautiful French city south east of Paris and known to be the gastronomic capital of france. Also much quieter and cleaner t...

Reunion with Shannon in Lyon!

Bonjour! We (Ant & the Nats) are currently lounging in the Tuileries gardens outside the Louvre museum with a bottle of frozen-pea-chilled (nowhere sells ice!) champagne we picked up yesterday on our day trip in Epernay! We got the train out to Epernay (Champagne) on Sunday morning, arrived about midday and started with a quick visit to Moët & Chandon as its the first stop on the famous "Avenue de Champagne". Inside we came across a chandelier made en...