ITALY | Monday, 3 May 2010 | Views [618] | Comments [1]
Buon giorno Italia, our hot, tasty, sumptuous host for the next two weeks. Having crossed the border (with Suze screaming "you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" - if only we'd been driving a mini) we noticed some instant ... Read more >
FRANCE | Monday, 3 May 2010 | Views [858] | Comments [2]
A morning in Aix-en-Provence, nothing to write home about, then we headed to the coast. I was a woman on a mission. - A few years ago, my mum discovered a battered old diary in a car boot sale. We don't know who the writer was, but we know she ... Read more >
TUNISIA | Thursday, 22 Apr 2010 | Views [699] | Comments [3]
Lots to catch up on but we wanted to send a quick up-to-date update to let you know we made it safely to the other side of the Med. Whilst the rest of the world is having travel troubles (thinking of all our friends currently stuck in far flung exotic ... Read more >
FRANCE | Saturday, 17 Apr 2010 | Views [589] | Comments [3]
I just discovered this photo on my camera. The day before we left Brighton, I was round at Sarah G's making tea, chatting, hugging, sobbing, overwhelmed with emotion. Fetching milk from the fridge I spied this, and it just about tipped me over the edge.... Read more >
FRANCE | Saturday, 17 Apr 2010 | Views [554] | Comments [2]
Dismissed as being too Disneyland-esque, Huw hated Carcassonne (very vocally of course, being him, but would we have him any other way..?!) but Suze and I succumbed to its charm nevertheless and enjoyed wandering round the cobbled streets within the ... Read more >
FRANCE | Friday, 16 Apr 2010 | Views [504] | Comments [1]
The wood and stone house sat at the end of the road and in it arose questions of whether to ever set off on the road again. Inside there was a meeting of minds; surprising, and inspiring when your own has been derided and scorned for expressing the ... Read more >
FRANCE | Friday, 16 Apr 2010 | Views [544]
The time had come. Oddy the truck was back on top form, and we'd run out of excuses to stay any longer. Plus Suze had a date to keep in Italy. Lola licked our faces for the last time, a bear hug from Ed and long sad squeeze from Ali (aka Fantastic ... Read more >
FRANCE | Thursday, 15 Apr 2010 | Views [814] | Comments [2]
The response to the 101 has always been either "Wicked!" or "What the hell do you want that for?" Justifying it to the former is obviously never a problem, but the latter group, well it's difficult to convince them that it has any ... Read more >
FRANCE | Thursday, 15 Apr 2010 | Views [596]
Now we were five, and life in our own little commune within a commune went happily on for a few more days. By night, we rigged up our makeshift sheet/projector cinema, watched
great films (The Boat That Rocked, Zeitgeist) and drank local vin rouge
and ... Read more >
FRANCE | Thursday, 15 Apr 2010 | Views [526]
On the Wednesday evening, we were invited to dine with Couillas' only other regular inhabitants: the fabulously French Jojo, complete with beret, colonel moustache, twinkly eyes and naughty laugh, his wife Marie-Claude, his sister Jacky and her charming ... Read more >
FRANCE | Thursday, 15 Apr 2010 | Views [506]
Note to self: update blog far more often... About an hour south of Toulouse, at the end of a long and winding road leading out of a tiny village called Chein Dessus, is a string of 'communes' or mini villages. Couillas is the last. After that, the road ... Read more >
FRANCE | Tuesday, 30 Mar 2010 | Views [820] | Comments [3]
Today is Monday(ish). We are almost exactly 1,000km south of where we were last Monday. After Belgium, our personal pilgrimage led us into northern France. At Thiepval Cemetary, the impressive and imposing memorial to the missing of the Somme, we ... Read more >
BELGIUM | Tuesday, 23 Mar 2010 | Views [934] | Comments [2]
The thunder rolled close
overhead, echoing around the cavernous, sheltering vault of the Menin Gate.
Only nature can provide poignancy like this, breaking the minute silence with a
noise like the guns of war. Every night since 1928, ... Read more >
BELGIUM | Tuesday, 23 Mar 2010 | Views [1208] | Comments [5]
Whoever said 'life is what happens to you while you're busy making
other plans' was a wise man - or more likely woman. There we were,
happily going about our day last Sunday: a drizzly day in Utrecht, but
warm and in the warm company of one of my ... Read more >
NETHERLANDS | Tuesday, 16 Mar 2010 | Views [754] | Comments [2]
The
yawning mouth of the ferry sucked us in on a cold, clear night when the land
and sea were vying to see which could be the flattest. Then the bright lights
of the port slid gently past. Distance and darkness hiding the grim concrete
they ... Read more >
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