Day 2 Chez Bramley

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

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Magnan

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

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The Dune du Pilat

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

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Angers (a driving day)

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

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London

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

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Calais!

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

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