Another Birthday; the big Four-O
28/06/18 – 02/07/18 Another Birthday celebration – this time a 40th Birthday for good friend Stephen. We rented a large house in the Somerset village of Waterrow where we barbequed,… Read more »
Category: Countries
A Birthday Treat
25/06/18 – 27/06/18 In September my Nan will turn 90. As an advance birthday treat we took her away for a short break to Dorset. A trip in Bertie would… Read more »
Home in a Heatwave
22/06/18 – 24/06/18 On our first night back in Taunton we stayed on a local campsite. Tanpit’s Farm is our favourite campsite near Taunton. It’s in a great location on… Read more »
A Midsummer’s Night and Day
21/06/18 Our drive from Dover to Somerset was not a particularly long one, but by the time we got to Reading we were already shattered, mostly because of the large… Read more »
Back to the UK
20/06/18 We stayed in the motorhome aire at Bergues the night before our Ferry. The aire here has no facilities but is large and popular. It sits just outside the… Read more »
Operation Dynamo
18/06/18 – 19/06/18 We rumbled along the smaller N and D roads of France towards the coast, passing by many signposts pointing to First and Second World War memorials. It… Read more »
Champagne For Everyone
17/06/18 I’ve mentioned before that my French geography is not great, so it came as a bit of a surprise to me when I realised that we were on the… Read more »
A Long Ride to Another Lake
16/06/18 We moved onwards through France with a long drive north, including a diversion around Bourg-en-Bresse that left us doing some old fashioned paper map reading as the sat nav… Read more »
A Cycle Round Lake Annecy
15/06/18 Lake Annecy is a justifiably popular tourist destination, a beautiful glacial lake surrounded by mountains and cliffs in the Haute-Savoie region of France. I have to admit to being… Read more »
Farewell Italy. Crossing the Piccolo San Bernardo Pass
13/06/18 It was time to leave Italy. We had spent the night at the sosta in La Thuile where heavy showers stopped us from getting out and exploring the area…. Read more »
Gran Paradiso Part 3: Our Final Valley
11/06/18 – 12/06/18 At the bottom of the Valsavarenche, just above the village of Introd which proudly proclaims it is a ‘Friend of Popes’, another valley splits off. This is… Read more »
Gran Paradiso Part 2: Ibex on the Slopes of the Big One
07/06/18 – 10/06/18 These blog posts may get a bit samey…visit a valley in the Aosta region, cycle a bit, walk a bit, see some marmots etc etc. if they… Read more »
Gran Paradiso Part 1: Cogne and Lillaz
03/06/18 – 06/06/18 South of the Aosta Valley is an offshoot of the Alps, Italy’s first national park. It is named after its highest peak – Gran Paradiso – the… Read more »
An Avalanche in the Aosta Valley
While we were in Cervinia we sat and watched as the spring sun thawed the snow and created avalanches. The sound as the snow starts to move is awesome in… Read more »
Matterhorn and Marmots in Cervinia
31/05/18 – 02/06/18 Breuil-Cervinia sits at the head of the Valtournenche. It’s a resort town, mostly purpose built to support the skiing industry, and we were quite shocked to see… Read more »
Valle d’Aosta. Perfect Peace in Torgnon
28/05/18 – 30/05/18 We had finally arrived in the Valle d’Aosta, the most westerly of Italy’s alpine regions which has borders with Switzerland and France. In fact French is an… Read more »
The Great Glass Elevator to the Alps
27/05/18 We left the large sosta in Celle Ligure on the Sunday morning, along with many other Italian vans who had been weekending there. Before we departed Paul did his… Read more »
Living the Lido Life
25/05/18 – 26/05/18 When we sat and planned our route north to the alps we decided that we would have one final day by the beach – after all the… Read more »
The Mountain with a Hole
24/05/18 Monte Forato had caught my eye while we were driving south through Italy and we’d immediately put it on our to-do list. There was too much snow on the… Read more »
A Whistle Stop Tour of Florence
23/05/18 Florence is on many people’s ‘must do’ lists for Italy. It hadn’t made it to the top of our list on the way south, when we visited Pisa and… Read more »