Home from home...

How good is this?, in our very comfortable suite here at Eileen's she added this touch of Touraine to save us becoming homesick, we love it!

Another winter walk...by the river Douglas.

Yesterday morning Norman and Margaret took us a walk along  the banks of the river Douglas which runs directly behind their avenue. It was a lovely,if cold, morning and the perfect prelude to a lovely lunch from Margaret.

 

It was 50 years ago today...

We are in Scotland for the festive period,this is the telephone box (although then it was an old red one then) outside the 'Pavilion' dance hall in Ayr where we met 50 years ago to the day. Oh and it was here I proposed years later - how romantic, think we were sheltering from the wind!

How lucky are we...

One of the lovely things about staying with Mike and Liz was sitting in their fab new extension and and having our own 'nature watch', we knew we would miss it when we left but are lucky enough at our current stopover with Norman and Margaret to have an equally lovely view!

 

A winter's walk...

As a welcome break from driving friends Mike and Liz were kind enough to host us for a second night here in Pirbright. Yesterday we went on a good walk around Brookwood cemetery and along part of the Basingstoke Canal with the winter backdrop giving it a different perspective - very pretty.

Welcome to winter driving - more than enough!

This was our welcome to the UK on our way into London last night on the first part of our journey up to Scotland for the festive period.

Mon banc dominical / My Sunday Bench in Descartes

 

Descartes

Spotted on a wee winter walk around Descartes...

 

A doorway that is out of this world!

Our Christmas treat...an afternoon and evening in Tours.

 

Pauline and I headed up to Tours yesterday afternoon for a bit of shopping, to check out the Christmas lights and to find a new dining experience. It was good to return to old habits that had been put on hold since 2019.  

The Christmas dressing was up to the usual high standard.

We had an apéro in in favourite bar in Place Plumereau before finding a restaurant for dinner.

We chose the beautifully dressed Le Laurenty on rue Colbert.

It proved to be an excellent choice!

Sundown in La Vienne...

 

Courting winter...

Finished putting our courtyard and sitooterie to bed for the winter and already looking forward to next spring to bringing everything back out in the spring.

It's come a long way...

A walk to the other side...

 

We had a change of plan yesterday when rather than do the walk we had been doing recently we decided to get out our passports and venture over the bridge into 'La Vienne' and up the hill into the woods.

We choose the well trodden route to begin with before going off-piste and stumbling our way to new views over the Creuse Valley and then La Guerche itself.