Author: Janet

Another sunny and warm day here in Magnan. Guy made a start on revamping the bathroom ceiling for his Mum and Dad. Unfortunately, they didn’t have the right clips to hold it in place and Mr Bricomarche had gone for

Warm and sunny today after a cool start. Took the A road through les Landes and remembered quite quickly why we normally use the motorway to get to Guy’s parents from Bordeaux. Mile after mile of narrow roads through the

Woke up to a very foggy morning – almost a pea souper! It made for difficult driving for Mr Bramley as we were trying to avoid tolls, so A roads rather than motorways. Gave up after an hour – it

Quiet night in the carpark. A bit cold though, until we turned the thermostat up. Big empty quiet roads to Rouen but quite windy. Stopped for lunch in a lorry park where we watched a driver get out of his

Well here we are again at Cite Europe in Calais. It’s been a long drag down from Nottingham. No real hold ups but just seems to have taken forever. The traffic on the motorways is just bonkers. Rufus has settled

Got back yesterday afternoon. The house feels huge – all this space. Coffee tastes horrible …no more bottled water! Working through the washing and the mail. Thanks for listening to the ramblings and looking at the pictures – back soon.

Early start (for us, anyway), in fact we managed to get on an earlier train again. Sunny in England and a tad warmer. The Dartford tunnel was half closed so we were re-routed through London, past Canary Wharf! Got to

Quiet night apart from double church bells 🔔. We drove towards Chalons to the nearest vet. Realised after booking a crossing for Saturday morning that we needed to have Rufus’ tablet given to him 24 hours beforehand – that meant

Can’t believe we are this far north already…think we will be home sooner than expected. Doesn’t seem to be much point looking around places when the weather is grim and they’re not at their best. It just means we eat

Well, the leisure battery gave up the ghost last night before we even went to bed! After covering Rufus up, we thought we were in for an extremely cold night, but then, out of the blue the heating clicked on