We began the day with a walk along the main street to buy bread at the boulangerie. Despite being 7c, I still walk in shorts, but not the purple ones that set the tongues going in Chablis all those years ago. Provided by upper body and head are well covered, I don't seem to feel the cold in my legs, and the French deserve to see my legs!!!! As it's so overcast and drizzly, all the photographs look rather bleak. Actually the fact that the stone used to build the ...

Marseille was completely inhospitable this morning. If anyone can assure us that there are any must see's in Marseille, you have three weeks to make a case otherwise we will give it a miss. I had bought TomTom maps for France, so we had no problems picking up our hire car (a Peugeot 308) and driving the hour to Maussane le Alpilles. Hertz have a newish policy that you have to bring your receipt for petrol when returning the car or they charge you for a full tank...

I’m a slow learner, however I at least attempted to put a positive spin on the 33 hours in transit from Sydney to Marseille. At the 27 hour mark, I’m still hanging in there, sitting in the waiting room at Charles de Gaulle airport for two hours before the TGV leaves for Marseille. Cheryl’s patience is a given, so that’s why this is a personal statement. Despite queuing behind 100 Japanese school kids going through immigration, taking of...

I guess you are getting used to my lack of consistency in posting by now. Our first full day in Ireland was spent in Northern Island clambering across the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge and the Giants Causeway. I have photographic evidence that I actually overcame my vertigo and crossed with Ches. Both are must see destinations for tourists, however despite the crowds and threatening storms, they were both fantastic. We were however given excellent advise by a chap a...

I'll make this one very brief. Not one of my best days and best not shared in it's entirety. I'm writing this on Wednesday evening in Kenmare. On Friday last, we attempted too much. OK, I attempted too much. I had identified a number of very remote sites that I just had to see while traveling down the centre of Northern Ireland and given that it would have been a five or six hour drive without stops, there wasn't much margin for error, and errors there were. I ...