We're back in Paris on the last leg of our holiday. We decided to head back there a bit earlier to rest up and catch up on those things we didn't get to see and do the first time around. On our list is Notre Dame - celebrating its 850th birthday, Monet's house and gardens in Giverny, Disneyland Paris, a little cruise on the Seine, The Versailles, Montmartre, a day trip to Amsterdam and a traditional meal of snails and frogs legs. Not a bad list for 8...

Our trip to Nice went pretty well, aside from the fact we got on the wrong train in Narbonne and got halfway to Paris. no matter, we still made it to Nice on time. We stayed In a quaint old place in the heart of Nice historic quarter just 300m meters from the beach. the azure water was brilliant, clean and cooling - perfect. Only challenge was the beach itself. NoT a grain of sand to be seen anywhere, just rocks the size of fists. So when Henry and I went to go f...

After a relaxing late breakfast (including a bowl of tea ) followed by a nice home cooked lunch with Matt and Estelle, we set off from La Rochelle to Bordeaux, a lazy 2.5hr train ride south. We thoroughly enjoyed Ile de Re and wanted to say a special thanks to Matt and Estelle for making us so welcome and sharing a little piece of their world with us :) We booked a little apartment in Bordeaux on AirBnB which looked good. We arrived to discover that although it w...

Had an easy day on the 7th, rested in morning then travelled to La Rochelle by TGV train (top speed about 300km/hr), then bus over the 3km bridge to Ile de Re where we are staying with Matt and Estelle and little Artur at Matt's mums place in La Couarde, a small village on the southern side of the island right on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.The island is a very popular summer retreat for the French, but isn't overly commercial which was perfect. Now,...

Another beautiful day in Paris, blue skies and 30 degrees C - loving this weather:)Shirley and I headed of to book our tickets on the TGV to La Rochelle at Gare Montparnasse then have breakfast in St Germaine - quite a pretty and posh part of town.We chose a quaint little cafe in amongst it all and took a seat. Breakfast was nice and the coffee was good. But all was not good, we realised we were in for some special treatment - spotting the differences between us ...