Bordeaux2

Off to the south of France

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October 28th 2008
Tuesday 28th October At last our journey has started after all the months of waiting and planning . We left our house in St John De Monts this morning and headed on to Bordeaux. We decided to make a stop over at a French Chateaux called Chateaux Malherbs. What a job to find it. The GPS didn’t know anything about the chateau or even the road. Yet we discovered later that it was one of the most ... read more

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