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Hitting the Road Again

Hitting the Road Again

After a couple of months of restricted movement thanks to a shiny new hip, it is great to start planning some trips for the year ahead. Some UK visits, hopefully a trip to Ireland, tripping round France in “Tonto”, following the Tour de France – just a few...
2025!

2025!

The New Year began with a new hip and a new friend 🦒 “Gerald” and I enjoying some January sunshine. Somehow we have slipped into another year 2025 which means that France has now been our home for four and a half years!!!! As we wish all our friends and family the...
Wet, Wet, Wet !!

Wet, Wet, Wet !!

Just back from the final 5 Star for the season. (Any eventing enthusiasts will know what I’m talking about 😊) Now late October down in Pau, south west France is normally warm and gloriously sunny but not this year ! Although we arrived in time to see some sun on the...
50 Years ?!……

50 Years ?!……

Time flies when you’re having fun, so the decision to be made was how were we going to celebrate our Golden Wedding Anniversary on the 5th of September?? An exotic cruise,  bungee jumping or maybe sky diving ??? No, we headed back to where it all began to celebrate...
Into August

Into August

Well it’s been a busy few months with some cross Channel traveling and France coming alive for the Summer season ( although unfortunately no one told the weather Gods, as we’ve not seen heaps of sun this year!) At the beginning of the month we took our familiar route...
Geez is it really June

Geez is it really June

Looking back it’s over 3 months since the last blog post! That might be because we haven’t been out and about much but at last it looks like Summer may have arrived ☀️😊 April was spent in the UK giving us the opportunity  to catch up with family and friends. May was...
February and it’s all about the Camargue!

February and it’s all about the Camargue!

Apologies to those that may have read my last Camargue post but here’s another one 😂 It’s two years since we first visited this fascinating area of France and last weekend we headed back again. The purpose this time was to look more closely at everything Camarguaise...
Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas

Wow, another Christmas has come around and another year end approaches. But turn back time to November (before our weeks of rain!) and it was garden harvest time. We may only have a handful of fruit trees and a couple of olive trees but this year was a bumper harvest....
Autumn Arrives

Autumn Arrives

And with it a definite change of temperature here in our little corner of France. We were still swimming at the end of September but now the central heating is on and the chimneys are being swept (an annual requirement here in France for house insurance!) However...
September sees some alternative horsepower

September sees some alternative horsepower

Mid September in our neck of the woods means it’s time for the Angouleme Circuit des Remparts,a 3 day motoring extravaganza. We had no intention of going but with big bro’ Dave visiting it needed checking out! So glad that we did. On the Friday we headed down to...