http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , France , Poitou-Charentes , La Rochelle en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:12:26 +0000 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:12:26 +0000 CHARENTES MAI 2009 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-433796.html 280809 1st week in France and the future is looking brighter in shadesWe sailed from Plymouth to Roscoff with a fine smooth crossing getting into port at 10.00pm and we were the first vehicle off the ferry. Things quickly took a turn for the worse when 15 minutes later our sat nav. sent us into ever narrowing backstreets in search of a mythical overnight camper stop. A fairly high level of st http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-432630.html All is ready for the start.Andy arrives in La Rochelle on the afternoon of the 11 august. I will be arriving after a horror trip from Fuerteventura. Fuerteventura Las Palmas Madrid Paris La rochelle. As soon as i have the chance I will let you know our route. At the moment we are undecided.Malaga is a must as we must meet Andys wife there I will be heading on to Cadiz to get the ferry http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-426279.html http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-418499.html http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-418481.html http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-418461.html http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-418446.html http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-418435.html http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-418396.html http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-418254.html Jan and I endured the approximately 10 hour plane ride to Paris France including stopover in Toronto and one last bite at Tim Hortons ...from there our European adventure would begin It was the return to the homeland for Jan and the second glimpse at a European lifestyle for myself. Highlights from the plane included some cultural highlights from the personal entertainment system such as The http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-415704.html Ola chicasWhen we last spoke to you we had just arrived in Tours. Not much to mention about Tours just a quaint town straddling the Loire river deep in Chateau country. Despite its small size we still managed to busk twice and make a reasonable euro40.After another dead on train journey courtesy of SNCF we arrived on the West coast into the town of La Rochelle. This bustling seaside town boa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-412518.html Happy official month of April everybodyIt was a warm and sunny 68 degree Monday over here in Paris today... although a painfully long Monday because we didn't get back from our weekend trip until after 9 Sunday night and none of us were ready to go back to class after such an easy going weekend.That being said I do need to get back in the game tonight... because this is my last week before sprin http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-388250.html Oh my Oh myCouldn't load photos earlier. So just in case you have forgotten how we lookCheck out Brian's Stable.XXXX http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-387975.html Yes finally finally finally a week later I am taking time out from my 2000 word Shakespeare paper to tell you all about my trip to La Rochelle. First of all the basic outcome of this trip is that I am in love with France. If I spoke better French that is where I would live. At first the entire city well the entire country made me nervous. I knew that I would have to do all of the communica http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-340540.html Le vendredi soir je suis arrive La Rochelle avantdernire escale dans mon priple franais. Lrsquoauberge de jeunesse se trouvait presque directement sur la plage et on avait une vue fantastique sur lrsquoAtlantique.Jrsquoai gard toutes les visites pour le samedi et jrsquoai commenc par les deux tours protgeant lrsquoentre du port. La premire est la tour SaintNicolas qui a t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-339953.html Le vendredi soir je suis arrive La Rochelle avantdernire escale dans mon priple franais. Lrsquoauberge de jeunesse se trouvait presque directement sur la plage et on avait une vue fantastique sur lrsquoAtlantique.Jrsquoai gard toutes les visites pour le samedi et jrsquoai commenc par les deux tours protgeant lrsquoentre du port. La premire est la tour SaintNicolas qui a t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-339945.html La Rochelle ville des supposer trois mousquetaires on a rien vue sur ca mais mymi est quand mme persuad. Bon ici il y avait aussi des huitres et nous avons t hberger par un Skipper professionnel mymi a fait des ptes fantastiques et des fondant au chocolat moins fantastique. on a fait le muse du nouveau monde et c'tait moche. Larochelle cest une belle ville qui a beacoup d'histoire mais http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-328101.html I'm seein what this thing can do. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-313924.html 23.Juni MandagSiden vi ikke hadde noen spesefik reise destinasjon s hadde vi det heller ikke travelt med komme oss avgrde... Ikke noen overaskelser der... Det ble en lang morgen med frokost pisspreik og lok forran pcn... vi kom oss ikke ut dra fr i 5 tia og ja.. det er vell ganske seint.. men men... vi hadde bestemt oss for dra mot La Rochele s vi peisa p oppover kysten... Vi tokk t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Poitou-Charentes/La-Rochelle/blog-293547.html