We arrived at our site for the Saturday's stage of the tour de France about 10 am and set about settling in for a day or so. first thing was to get some washing done, this we have to do in a plastic box, handwashing everything takes time but we have worked out a routine and Ewout is very good at rinsing and squeezing out the water. We had a visit from a local man who asked us for a Flag for his wife who teaches English at a local secondary school. He offered to...

Friday 24th July We had morning tea at McDonalds, spoke to Luke and Karen on the internet, and received the best birthday present from them over the internet, a video of the family singing me happy birthday.I have played that one quite a few times as it is lovely to see them all together like that and hear them having a good time. I hope they enjoyed the birthday cake that they had on my behalf.After macca's we went back to the camper and packed a picnic lunch a...

Lucerne: 24th July 2009-07-24 After having some beautiful weather for the last couple of days we woke to a grey drizzly day and after leaving our riverside campsite drove the short distance to Lucerne We arrived in Lucerne on for the early morning rush hour and after getting the confused directions from the GPS we decided it would be easier to find a place to park and then go in by bus or train. We found a camper stop place in the next town of Kriens which is ...

Tuesday 21st July, Somewhere in Switzerland. ( near Wolhausen ) So what have we been doing since last blog you ask? A couple of stages of the "tour de France and a visit to a reconstruction of a 13th century Chateau called Guedelon in the French countryside. It is being built in an old quarry from where they are mining the rock and harvesting the wood to be a living history book. They are using architectural drawingsfrom the middle ages and each of the c...

Monday 20th July.