Our road trip begins
6. elokuuta 2019, Englanti ⋅ ⛅ 23 °CEn route to Portsmouth having squeezed the world and his dog into the boot! Looking forward to our French adventure
En route to Portsmouth having squeezed the world and his dog into the boot! Looking forward to our French adventure
Safely tucked up in our bunks...
Our first stop was the stunning seaside town of Arromanches - home to the famous Mulberry Harbour
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
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 aLue lisää
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
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 aLue lisää
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!
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 dinnerLue lisää
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