Bath
2025年6月18日, イングランド ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Bath (Aquae Sulis) is up there with Pompeii in my opinion- absolutely stunning! The Roman Baths are beautiful and are still being excavated- hard to believe they’re just sitting there buried underもっと詳しく
Stonehenge
2025年6月19日, イングランド ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Another bucket list item done and dusted! Sorted out our new travel arrangements and then drove an hour to Salisbury. Walked the couple of kilometres in 30 degrees heat - but loving being back in theもっと詳しく
Mont St Michel
2025年6月20日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
New fave of all faves!
Drove (the long way if you look at our route tracker lol) from Chambourd to Mont St Michel
One of those OMG moments when you first see it - absolutely magnificent!!
The islandもっと詳しく
Les Sables d’Olonne and Nantes
2025年6月21日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Left Mont St Michel and headed to Les Sables d’Olonne, a beautiful beachside town ( recommended by my friend Patris) Stunning beachfront and hundreds of people swimming ( a sweltering day today)もっと詳しく
Bordeaux
2025年6月22日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
When in Bordeaux …
Spent the morning wandering the streets Did a group tour in the afternoon to St Emilion and 2 of the wineries
Met a great group of people and ended up spending the rest of theもっと詳しく
Limoges
2025年6月23日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Limoges is way bigger than I expected and they LOVE Rugby and the All Blacks! So of course we loved telling everyone where we are from! 😂😂
Wandered around the city and took in the sights
Funもっと詳しく
Oradour-Sur-Glane
2025年6月24日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Did a final wander of Limoges and our next stop was Oradour-Sur-Glane (the Martyred Village)
On 10th June 1944, Nazis surrounded the village, herded all the women and children into the Church and setもっと詳しく
Poitiers to Tours
2025年6月24日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Set off from Poitiers to Tours and wandered around Tours for most of the day. It is so hot we had to keep stopping for a cold beer!!
Tours is lovely - lots of old buildings and Churches - there’s aもっと詳しく
Le Mans and Honfleur
2025年6月26日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
‘Popped’ in to Le Mans for Ian to see the track and found the museum!
Carried on to Honfleur, an amazing village and port. Starting to see the change in architecture now we’re in Normandy. Had aもっと詳しく
Le Havre to Lille
2025年6月27日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Stopped off at Etretat to see the beach and cliffs, which were spectacular!
Such a shame it was raining as our original intention was to lie on the beach for a few hours! 😩 well worth the detourもっと詳しく
Dunkirk to Bruge
2025年6月28日, フランス ⋅ 🌬 20 °C
Hit the beach of Dunkirk In WW2 1940 the Germans were making a swift advance towards the English Channel, trapping English and French troops- operation Dynamo, a daring strategic plan, evacuated 338kもっと詳しく
Calais to Dover
2025年6月29日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Au Revoir France!
Got the train from Lille to Calais (a bit of a mission with 4 suitcases, 2 full backpacks and shopping bags! lol) and then jumped on the Ferry to Dover.
The crossing itself was onlyもっと詳しく
Woolwich to London
2025年6月30日, イングランド ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Ian and Ali gave us a tour of London - via the Thames!
1. Woolwich - walked the tunnel under the river to North Woolwich which was a bomb shelter during the war
2. Ferried back over the river andもっと詳しく
Felixstowe Pier
2025年7月1日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Girls off to the beach! It’s a glorious day and the 2 Ian’s are going to Duxford to the Aviation Museum
Ali and I had lunch and Prosecco and then lay on the beach and swam- so relaxing! 33もっと詳しく
Cambridge
2025年7月2日, イングランド ⋅ 🌧 18 °C
We drove to Cambridge and jumped on the Hop on Hop off bus. I didn’t realise Cambridge was so huge!
There is actually 2 Universities and 31 Colleges - a total of 20,000 students and nearly as manyもっと詳しく
Silverstone - Opening Day
2025年7月3日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Familiarised ourselves with the Circuit etc - it’s huge!! Thousands turned out for what is traditionally a ‘quieter day’ as they prepare for the racing.
Our tickets included a walk of the Pitもっと詳しく
Practise Day
2025年7月4日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Pretty chilled day watching Formula One practise sessions and Formula 2 and 3 qualifying
Our accommodation is so cute and located in a tiny village just outside of Milton Keynes..
We got back aboutもっと詳しく
FP3 and Quali
2025年7月5日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Yes- I’m an F1 chick now…
Up early to get to the track before the crowds. We drive to Milton Keynes station and get a shuttle, which drives through quaint little villages on the way.
Liam’s outもっと詳しく
British Formula One Grand Prix
2025年7月6日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
This is the 75th anniversary of F1 GP at Silverstone
All the stars were here - I saw Keanu Reeves, Jeremy Clarkson, Vin Diesel
Our stand was uncovered, so we sat through 4 seasons in one day! Oneもっと詳しく
The Cotswolds
2025年7月7日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
I’m so glad we “popped over” to the Cotswolds for our last bit of sightseeing- so idyllic!
Stopped in at Bibury, famous for the row of Weavers Cottages from the 15th century then went to Bourtonもっと詳しく
Colchester
2025年7月8日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Had a lovely drive through the countryside to Colchester- which is the oldest recorded town in England.
Wandered around doing last minute shopping.
Colchester has the largest remaining Victorianもっと詳しく
Halstead to Heathrow
2025年7月9日, イングランド ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Last day - did a wee last minute tour of Halstead and then Ali drove us to Stansted Airport where we boarded a bus to Heathrow.
They tried to charge us $500 for excess luggage- which we argued andもっと詳しく
旅行者Looks stunning
旅行者Renee Loved living in bath
旅行者Oh cool - I didn’t know she lived in Bath - such a great place!