Kingfamilytour

Only a couple of hours drive to our final stop in Europe, Rome via the small lakeside town of Trevignano Romano. Relieved to have dropped the car off after completing 4000kms on the wrong side of the road, albeit having taken a couple of visits to the wrong side of the road twice.... Oops! Fantastic apartment again in Rome, great location, and the great food continues.... read more

Our final big drive to Tuscany, with an overnight stay in Genoa, and a lunch time stopover in Monaco. Our accommodation, on the working vineyard of Quercecchio about 10km from Montalcino, provided a great base to tour Tuscany. Pisa, Siena, and Montalcino itself provided the best food and wine of the trip. Apart from the patissieieres and maybe the huge variety of produce in France, Italy's food , and coffee, is just simpler, cheaper, and tastier. Great food everywhere, especially for the kids, pizza, pasta, and loads of fantastic Gelato.... read more

From our brief stay in the Loire , 500km drive to the Dordogne, another farm house on the outskirts of Sarlat de Caneda. Fortunately for toll roads, 130km/hr means you chew the k's quickly.... Canoeing on the Dordogne, another bloody castle (Castelnaud), and a few quiet days of not much...... read more

Picked up the hire car and made the escape from Paris to Dol de Bretagne via Normandy on the wrong side of the road.... stopped at some of the Normandy battlements and beaches on the way, fantastic weather again. Stayed at hotel Des Ormes , which is a sort of family fun park, cabins , pools, activities, a good change from the grind of Paris and London , especially for the kids. A great few days including a visit to Mont St Michel.... read more

Arrived in London fortunately with no further incidents... everyone pretty tired but met by driver and taken to Adrian and Rachel's (Penny's sister) home in Oxshott, what a place to start the trip, a fantastic few days of hospitality,weather, and doing London in style!... read more