How It’s Going

2nd December 2023 2

Jesús Pobre! It might sound like something you’d shout if you hit your thumb with a hammer, but it isn’t. More later. It’s been a [more…]

Settling In

17th November 2023 0

Before looking at how we’re settling in, I wanted to say that our last post was full of flippant references to the delays and storms [more…]

Dénia

15th November 2023 2

Monday: Ting-ting!  Oh! It’s a message from Brittany Ferries. “You know that ferry to Spain you booked for Wednesday? Well there’s a big storm coming in [more…]

Alquézar

20th May 2023 4

Well that’s quite a setting above for our next-to-last night in France! But we don’t want to hear about that yet, do we?  “No!” shouts [more…]

Pamplona

14th May 2023 0

After our disturbed night’s sleep in Lekeitio last time, we elected to make an early start to pack as much as we could into the [more…]

Biarritz

10th May 2023 2

We left you last time in Mimizan, enjoying the May Day celebrations. The location was so nice that we considered staying another day but… weather. [more…]

Bordeaux

5th May 2023 0

How have you been? You might have noticed we haven’t been in touch for a few days. Well, we don’t like to bombard our subscribers [more…]

Saumur

28th April 2023 2

“Wait, what..?” You’d think after 37 years of marriage (if we last until September,that is) we’d know each other so well that we’d be finishing [more…]

Évreux

24th April 2023 4

“That’s it, we’re over the drain, just open the tap.” “It is open!” “It can’t be – nothing’s coming out.” And so began our next morning in [more…]

Le Crotoy

21st April 2023 10

If you’re reading this it must have worked! A week or two ago I went down to the cellar, somewhere I hadn’t been for months. [more…]

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