It has been a fascinating last few days politically with the landslide for Labour in the UK and the turnaround in France with the right wing National Rally being relegated to third place.Could it be that the rise of right wing parties is frightening ‘normal’ people into voting to keep them out? While I…
Thursday morning looked a bit iffy on the north coast so we headed south to Auray, where we made an interesting discovery. We have some photos of our boys on holiday which we have always thought were in Dinan, but it became obvious that they were actually taken in Auray. It’s a lovely town and…
Went for a walk yesterday by the Lac de Guerledan, lovely spot, hard walk and we got rained on while eating our butties! Very grey today and with intermittent drizzle, so we wnt to a local market to stock up on fruit, cheese etc and then came home for lunch. We decided on a rest…
The little gite on the prairie. This is a really nice little house. 5 rooms. The kitchen/diner and lounge are on the front with 2 bedrooms and the bathroom on the back. My only gripe is the shower cubicle which is a bit small. Or maybe I’m a bit big? Behind the gite is the…
Friday morning was terrible! We had torrential rain. Went to the market in nearby Montrichard and got drenched. However! It cleared up. Went to Chenonceau. You know those places that you’ve seen umpteen times in photos and you think it might be an anticlimax to see them in real life? Well this really wasn’t one…
We bumbled down from Caen yesterday, avoiding tolls and motorways until we got to Alencon and then decided that driving through dull murky France was no fun. We transferred to the autoroute and it started to rain as well! However, we wound up in Amboise for lunch, outside in the sunshine. This was only 30…
We had a lovely weekend, mostly in sunshine, at D&S’s in Stainton last weekend. We had a nice lunch at the Brackenrigg Inn on Friday with Nick and Kahlan as well as Nick’s mum and dad. The Brackenrigg Inn, Watermillock We followed this up with a stroll and an ice cream in Glenridding and a…