Hey shorty, it's your birthday - gonna party like it's your birthday, drink Bacardi like it's your birthday . . . . it's like 50cents wrote it for me !! So, happy birthday me and thank you all for your kind texts, emails, cards and money - very much appreciated for my first ever birthday away from home. So, now we are up, up and away in the Swiss mountains, at Veysonnaz - it's truly breathtaking - the apartment has lots of windows so we have a perfect mountai...

Hello, and again, apologies for the lack of responses to emails / blog and picture updates. So, we moved on from Avignon (I will upload a picture to show you how bad our pitch was at the campsite, with the grey wall and all night lighting) - we had a fabulous dinner out on our last night - the 'plat du jour' at 11 euros was Maigret duck in a red sauce with potato gratin - it was delicious - one of the best meals I have ever eaten. From Avignon, we drove across...

Bonjour all Hope you are all well ? We haven't had any internet access hence such a delay in replying to emails and updating the blog. So, we moved on from the house sit, we decided to come South for some sunshine and it's been lovely and hot - we drove south along the Pyrennes through Gorge de Galamus - jeez what a scary drive it was through there - only one car wide with a few passing places - a small wall with sheer drop one one side and solid rocks with ove...

Bonjour, bonjour Hope everyone is well ? We are now in the foot of the Pyrennes on a house sit until Thursday, we're looking after a grumpy cat called Olly and a massive lurcher dog called Ronnie. After my last blog, we moved South to Sarlat and had a couple of rainy nights there. Sarlat is a medieval city and was really interesting, loads of winding little alley ways and old churches / buildings. All the buildings in the area are built from a honey coloured st...

Bonjour ! Bienvenue to our blog. So, we're starting to recall some school French ! And we're having to use it as so far we haven't met any campsite / shop owners who speak English ! We had a very calm crossing from Caen, and drove a couple of hours south to pitch up just above Mayenne - a beautiful campsite right on the river. We had 2 blisteringly hot days there before a whole days drive through the Loire and down to just outside Limoges where we had 3 nights...