Category Archives: France

An unusually early start for us on a Monday morning, packing up camp on Arcachon Bay (after obligatory beach dog walk in the dark), to join the commuters heading into Bordeaux for our 8am vet appointment. We handed Lizzy over for her Electroretinogram, which would be conducted under anaesthesia, so she would be gone forContinue reading “Living the life – Bergerac and Sarlat-la-Canéda, Dordogne, France”

This week started with the much anticipated vet visit in Bordeaux to assess our dog Lizzy for cataract surgery. Our vet Dr. Vet. Goulle was just as excellent as he was recommended to be, friendly, professional and reassuring. His assessment though was that Lizzy was between 0 and 1 on a scale of 1 toContinue reading “Plan remade – Arcachon Bay and the Medoc, Nouvelle-Acquitaine, France”

We had a lovely easy drive up to the Pyrenees on Sunday morning, enjoying the lorry-free roads due to the HGV ban on Sundays. We decided to head straight to the Haut-Pyrenees area, where we had a few nice wild camp spots planned. We were not quite sure what to expect in terms of snow,Continue reading “Up in the Mountains again – Haut-Pyrenees, Occitainie, France”

Our trip started at a lovely grassed lakeside Aire on the Le Petit Lac at Gastes. Although at 3400 hectares, it is not small. Although its near neighbour, the Grand Lac, which we drove by, is 5600 hectares and the second largest lake in France. Le Petit Lac is used as a training ground forContinue reading “Enjoying the Atlantic coast – Les Grands-Lacs and Basque Country, France”

Tuesday continued as Monday had started, with heavy rain, the big blue area on the precipitation map largely having passed though. The morning was due to be wet, but there was a window over lunch when it was due to ease a little. We managed to dash out with the dogs for morning walk betweenContinue reading “Rain and Inspiration – Gujan-Mestras, Nouvelle-Acquitaine, France”

Lola is now used to our routine I think, so after yesterday afternoon’s beach walk, she knew what was coming and was very excited to be out again for her morning walk. The tide was pretty high but luckily there was enough sand for us to walk a little way around the bay. The highContinue reading “Replan – Gujan-Mestras, Nouvelle-Acquitane, France”

After deciding we were hunkering down for the weekend and watching rugby, by Sunday morning we had itchy feet to be on the move again. We both decided we felt like a nice Sunday lunch out, although we had some nice food in the Alps, the cheese rich hearty ski food is a long wayContinue reading “Sunday lunch out – Taussat (Lanton), Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France”

All night it rained. This morning it is raining and forecast is for it to persist it down all day. This however is only the third time we can remember it raining on our whole trip, so we really cannot moan. We had planned to head to Bordeaux and watch the Six Nations game againstContinue reading “Hunkered down – Rouffignac-de-Sigoulès, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France”

Today, we have mostly been buying wine 😁😂😋🍷 We started the day leisurely with breakfast and then a stroll into Belvès for our shopping trip. We visited ‘Plonk et Plus” where we met Graham for our wine supplies, he was able to advise which were the bottles we enjoyed the most from the night before,Continue reading “Wine buying tour – Rouffignac-de-Sigoulès, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France”

We started our day before breakfast in Rocamadour with a 3 mile loop tour of the medieval village on the cliff. We started at the castle ramparts, though these were sadly closed, we were able to descend the winding path down the cliff side. We had the place to ourselves, except for one other coupleContinue reading “Rocamadour tour and A New Life in the Sun – Belvès, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France”