friends and happy times

A few comments and photos follow from our wanders during our summer holiday in August & September 2007. They're logged under their ...

Another return visit for the Tilletts, and like our last visit, a glorious day. With its enormous abbey, courtyards, paintings and stonewor...

This time, we were in Le Pelican in Vernantes. You see us here with our superb desserts: a honey creme brulee for Cassie, a pile of profi...

The two couples had gone our separate ways the day before, and on the way back from their visit to Le Mans (Milton's choice), Dot & ...

This stunning chateau has been dedicated to the work and creations of Leonardo da Vinci. With astonishing reconstructions of his ideas - m...

After all their help and hospitality, we thought we owed Ali and John a return match! So here we are at the start of what turned out to be ...

... at the Moulin Bleu, near Bourgueil: under the awning, glorious sunshine, and mama-cat with her new kittens - one black, one white; super...