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Before we came away, I booked tickets to go up the Eiffel Tower at dusk, so we could look across the city at night. Like I said in a previous blog, this trip is all about twinkling lights! The first visit was cancelled because of strike action (not something I’d envisaged would happen! Security alerts,... Continue Reading →
Our second full day in Paris involved a trip to Montmartre and Sacre-Coeur, before returning to the city centre and walking back through Les Tuileries and the Louvre to the apartment. We caught the Metro to La Concorde, where we changed line and continued to Les Abbesses. This is the deepest station in Paris, with... Continue Reading →
Yesterday was mostly spent on the hop-on hop-off bus around the main sights in Paris. Despite going around three times 😆 we still managed to walk 16000 steps… busy day! We started by walking to Notre Dame to get on the bus then, as we’d just missed it, walking back towards the Louvre to another... Continue Reading →
A few months ago we had a lovely surprise when my brother and sister-in-law invited us to join them in Paris. They’d booked a lovely, big apartment in the centre of the city but, unfortunately (for them but not for us!) my niece and her boyfriend were now unable to go. We jumped at the... Continue Reading →
Our trip home seemed to go on forever… around 5 hours for the ferry journey and 6 hours for the drive from Newhaven to Rhuddlan. We had a lazy start because of torrential rain… it didn’t seem worth leaving the aire in Aubin to attempt to do anything. As lunchtime approached, we headed to Dieppe... Continue Reading →
Yesterday evening we made dinner for Mike and Gail, and had a brilliant evening that ended with us playing with dominoes and magnets, and laughing so much we were crying! The only bad thing was the chewy beef in the Stroganoff but I’m sure Mike and Gail’s dog, Tedi, enjoyed the bits we left. Today,... Continue Reading →
Today we’ve been to Giverny to visit the house and garden where the artist Claude Monet lived, painted and gardened. I didn’t have great expectations, thinking that it might be dull at the end of October. However, I was pleasantly surprised. It was stunning, with a wide variety of plants in all the colours under... Continue Reading →
Yesterday flew by. We had a delayed start because of a poor night’s sleep, problems with the gas water heater, John needing to wash his hair, and me having problems making the sat nav go where I wanted it to! In the end we were on the road, driving north to Normandy. The plan was... Continue Reading →
We’ve driven another few hours north today, stopping on the way to go to Aldi, and to fill up with diesel and gas. In between helping Sally sat nav by giving directions, I’ve managed to add the heel to both of the socks I’m knitting, without dropping any stitches. 😊 Despite driving through torrential rain... Continue Reading →
We left the campsite after an awful night’s sleep. I was too hot and my mosquito bites were annoying me, then it started raining and huge drops from the trees kept plinking on Bertie’s roof. The 5-hour journey went really well though… apart from me dropping a stitch in my knitting and having a nightmare... Continue Reading →
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