Blogs from Aquitaine, France, Europe - page 3

TOUR 3 – La France – FRI, 01 JUL 2022 – “Day 7: BORDEAUX - BORDEAUX Wine tasting in the countryside. Free time this afternoon. (B,D)”... read more

Super day out today. Apologies for rather a lot of photos but we went to so many super places it's too hard to chose what to show here so ended up with an overload. I highlighted Issigeac on the map as recommended yesterday as a lovely village to visit though it is most famed for a superb Sunday market and this was not Sunday. Then circled 2 more places along the route and off we went. Lovely drive even without the specific villages as this is such pretty countryside. Issigeac first. No market but that meant we could wander far more freely and take photos without having to avoid accidentally including anyone. We had a really lovely stroll around, there are some wonderful buildings, some dating back to the 12th century. In Alsace there are pretty ... read more

Phew. Still incredibly hot but a couple of degrees cooler than yesterday. Fortunately we don't need to cycle or walk in the full sunshine or even ride the scooter as we would have done on previous trips. Just trying to be sensible and limit the time we are fully exposed to the sun as it really is lethally hot. We first of all visited Limeuil which is just over the bridge across the Dordogne. On a cooler day we might well have walked there but far cooler in Smart Arse. Was amused to instruct a Frenchman, in French, on how to get the car park machine to accept his payment. My French is definitely coming back to be a bit at a time ? We have been to Limeuil before and would have climbed to the ... read more

All packed up and on the way before 10am. The pittch behind ours had left really early which was handy as it gave us lots of space to manoevre. First of all the trailer onto the moho towbar and then Smart Arse up the trailer's little ramps all ready to follow faithfully behind. We headed due south first of all and the traffic was quite heavy as had to use the major roads to get out of and past La Rochelle but we turned East towards Cognac and the landscape changed to far more interesting than the very flat area immmediately behind the coast. We have surely driven some of this route before as have certainly headed for Angouleme before. Perigeux we thought might be interesting and we couldn't remember being through before but though there ... read more

**Let me apologize for the delays in posting. Its been hectic and often there isn't a good connection. I will post more photos when I have a better connection Today we going to travel from Paris to Saint Jean Pied de Port in southern France. This is where we start, and many other people start, the Camino de Santiago. We already had our train tickets, all the way to Saint Jean. But first, we had to get to the train station. We got up, did our business, packed up the backpacks, and headed to the metro station. Fortunately, we didn't have to worry about getting our deposit back, since my wife had taken care of it the night before. We walked down to the metro station Le Nationale, the same one we'd used yesterday to see ... read more