In France, every day is dedicated to a Saint. Not only does a child have a birthday, they celebrate a ‘Saints day’. Until recently, the name had to come from this calendar. This is why we have lots of ‘François’ and ‘Pascale’ and very few ‘Kylie’s.
Anyhow, today, the day of the London Mayoral Election: Vendredi [...]
Saturday 28th July, 2007
On the saturday, we drove north to Pas de Calais. We were going to overnight in a place called Marquise, near Boulogne. Staying in a place called hôtel des deux caps.
First we had the drive. Though it was one of the shorter legs, it was probably the most problematic as we had [...]
Friday 27th July, 2007
At breakfast, there was a couple on another table, by chance they chose to do exactly the same things as us - all day, as we walked around, we’d be at a destination and they’d arrive, or vice-versa. It got rather silly!
We drove to Blois, it’s good cycling territory around there. [...]
Thursday 26th July, 2007
It was time to head back north on Thursday. We were to overnight in the Loire Valley. This was to be, by far the longest drive - but we made very good time indeed. Surprisingly good, in fact. Maybe it just seemed that was as I was feeling quite fresh.
It seemed to [...]
Wednesday 25th July, 2007
On Wednesday, Audrey, Monica and I went to la Mongie in order to go up on the incredibly expensive cable car to Pic du Midi. The views from up there are really good.
We could see right the way across to the Cirque de Gavarnie. The tiny notch on the horizon [...]
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