friends and happy times

I have been waiting for this song all my life. Or at least, since I moved to Norfolk...

Back from another tranquil meander around France. As last year, we travelled by car, using the highly civilised Chunnel crossing, rather th...

We crossed the country south-west to end up in what must be pretty much the centre of France. Here the countryside became more interesting ...

The Burgundy area - or, at least, this part of it - wasn't actually one of the nicest we've stayed in. The scenery is a bit unexciti...

We were relieved, after 3 nights' B&B, to stop for the next week. Le Petit Sauzay proved to be a lovely home - in fact, much large...

Now we travelled down to Clamanges, in the Champagne-Ardennes region. Here we found ourselves staying with the delightful Valerie & Did...

Yes, this really was the view that greeted us in the car park for the Channel Tunnel. The comparison with the chaos and crowds of last year...