Our road trip begins
6. August 2019 in England ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
En route to Portsmouth having squeezed the world and his dog into the boot! Looking forward to our French adventure
All aboard!
6. August 2019 in England ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Safely tucked up in our bunks...
Arromanches
7. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Our first stop was the stunning seaside town of Arromanches - home to the famous Mulberry Harbour
Bayeux
7. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Bayeux is a really beautiful little town with a marvellous cathedral that used to display the tapestry once a year. So much history associated with this place - it was a joy to walk around
Bayeux military cementry
7. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
An essential part of the girls education and they were really intrigued by all the different regiments and from all the different corners of the world that men and women came together to fight aWeiterlesen
Omaha beach
7. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
I never really appreciated what a vast Beach this is. Hard to imagine what it must of been like 75 years ago. A completely different world today
Just standing there takes you back to the war - suggest you miss out on the statue of De Gaulle with the inscription Le Libérateur de France! What a joke!
Mont St Michel
7. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
This has to be one of the highlights of the trip so far. Such a magical island full of history and very Hogwarts-esque. The light show in the abbey in the evening was really good - culminating with aWeiterlesen
Nantes
8. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Les machines de Nantes - A quick stop off to see a recommended combination of engineering and creativity in the centre of Nante. Bonus was seeing both the girls get soaked by the elephant!
Noirmoutier-en-l'Ile
8. August 2019, Bay of Biscay ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Or next stop was on a little island just off the coast of Vendée. We explored a cute little model village Museum which showed the styles of different French houses.
We had a sumptuous seafood dinnerWeiterlesen
Hotel Punta Lara
9. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
The hotel we stayed at was quite quaint and although we had to move rooms because our first was very damp, we did enjoy our stay there and the beach walks were very picturesque
Lots of love ! G and G here. It’s raining and D / G bern watching rugby. I’ve been washing poppies. Have fun. Large hugs 😘😘😘😘
Troglogytique Cave Village
10. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
En route to our stay in the Loire Valley we popped in to visit that’s fantastic village built into the caves for refugees.
Domaine Plessis Gallu
10. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Our home for a week. We are staying in a converted tower which is part of a château in the very picturesque town of Azay-le-Rideau. François and his wife Sophie purchased the Estate five years agoWeiterlesen
Les Grottes Pétrifiantes de Savonnières
11. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
We visited these caves close to Villandry where the limestone deposits are used to coat ornaments and they are then sold
Chateau Villandry
11. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
This was our first chateau that we visited and it is famous for its spectacular gardens. It is still privately owned and they have restored the gardens to how they were in the height of theWeiterlesen
Mini Chateaux Parc
12. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Chateau du Clos Lucé
12. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Chateau d'Azay-Le-Rideau
13. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Kayaking
13. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Chinon
14. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Parc de la Vallee
15. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Chateau Langlais
16. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
This chateau is very much dedicated to the wedding of Anne of Brittany and the merger of the Duchy of Brittany to the rest of Royal France. Isobel was please to see more bedrooms compared to the otherWeiterlesen
Les Nuits Fantastique
16. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
A fabulous way to finish our week in the Loire valley
Palace of Versailles
17. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ 🌧 18 °C
We managed to miss most of the rain to experience the wonder of Versailles
Paris day 1
18. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Paris Day 2
19. August 2019 in Frankreich ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C