This winter in Europe has been very warm and this was reinforced when we arrived in Morzine, France for a week's skiing/snowboarding. Driving into the town, there was very little snow around and instead of people being tucked up inside drinking a vin chaud, they were outside enjoying the sun and having a beer! We had taken the trip with One Element - the group we do weekly training in the park with and all up there were around 15 on the trip. We had a chalet (mos...

Wednesday I arrived late morning in Tours after an early start in London and picked up the car then drove straight for Chateau Chenonceau. We were going to be staying in the other direction from Tours so I thought I best go and explore the most famous Chateau in the Loire Valley. The grounds were amazing and the rooms done up with the most amazing flower arrangements. I drove back to Tours for a bit of an explore before picking mum and dad up from their train...

After a typical long London winter, we wanted to get away for the Easter Break and get some sun. We chose reasonably well with a long weekend in the Southern Coast of France. We flew into Nice on Good Friday and found some sunny weather upon arrival. We changed into shorts and t-shirt and went to explore Nice. We walked along the beautiful big promenade and headed towards the Russian Cathedral which looked magnificent from the outside but unfortunately it was c...

A scorcher of a weekend was enjoyed in Paris with 32C both days. We still managed to check out all the sights with earlyish mornings meaning we could avoid the hot afternoons. We climbed the steps of the Eiffel Tower to the 2nd level to avoid the queue then took the lift to the top during the day and returned in the evening to see the tower all lit up - beautiful. We took a more direct approach to our visit to the Louvre and beelined specific items to vie...