Where to now...

The 15th century Portes Mordelaises.

Pauline checking out our route during our visit to Rennes. 

Last Saturday on the narrow streets of Mont Saint-Michel...

 

Mont-Saint-Michel's narrow streets and alleyways are mainly concentrated around its main thoroughfare, Grande Rue. The streets, alleys and paths lead visitors through this historic site on a continuous upward climb.

All paths lead up to the abbey which sits on top of the 'Mont'.

You have to retrace your steps to get you back down to the causeway and the iconic view.

Even more from Honfleur harbour.....

More from Honfleur...

As part of our anniversary road trip we choose to return to the beautiful Honfleur after a gap of 20 years. As soon as we dragged our luggage over the cobbled streets of the harbour our memories came flooding back.

We were blessed with a warm beautiful day on our arrival which made for capturing the delights of the harbour area which must surely feature in a million tourist albums.

Pauline's hotel choice proved inspired also with a perfect location and very comfortable accommodation. We couldn't wait to rediscover this gem of a place!

 

The story behind the picture...

 

Coming soon!

More from Carcassonne...

On our second day in Carcassonne we decided to explore the 'new town' which was actually started in 1247. Crossing the old bridge 'Pont Vieux gives probably the best views of the medieval city.

We walked from the bridge through the 'La Bastide Saint-Louis' and all the way to the Canal de Midi.

We decided that we would come back to the 'Place Carnot' here for dinner in the evening and chose restaurant 'Le Longchamp'.

On our way back to the old city for lunch we stopped in to have a look in on the Musee des Beaux-Arts where there was an interesting exhibition 'The Future Now' by Philippe Shangti.

Glad we did!

Provence road-trip... part 1

The reason we had been down in Provence was to visit my brother Richard and his wife Francoise who are lucky enough to have had a house built in the village where Francoise was brought up.

Taken on this trip - with lovely blue skies.

It had been 4 years since our last visit (how time flies) to them there, though we get over to see them in Paris every year.

We (well me really) decided that we should use our 13 year old Honda for the trip as it is more comfortable for long drives, has cruise control and it had been a while since it had any sort of holiday due to its unreliability.This unreliability stemmed from the fact that it would refuse to start in any sort of extreme (well actually not that extreme) weather - too cold or too hot - 'no not today thank you'.

A search on 'google' identified the problem as the relay which our friends Mike and Liz brought back a replacement for from the UK. A quick tutorial video by a very nice lady on 'YouTube' and problem solved -oh the power of the internet!

My meticulous planning consisted of a quick reminder of the main towns enroute using my trusty 'Collins'...my how time flies (have I already said that?)

Did I say we have never invested in sat-nav, have no smartphones and the radio in the car doesn't work....just setting the scene - more on Monday.