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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”

Our plan this morning was to visit Puy de Dôme, a lava dome in the Chaîne de Puys volcanoes, the youngest volcano in the Massif Central region, formed 10,700 years ago. The Puy de Dôme is the highest point in a chain of 48 volcanoes / cinder cones / lava domes / mars and explosionContinue reading “Past the volcanoes and onto the rock – Rocamadour, Occitania, France”

We had a lovely start to the day by following one of the circular routes around the cité of Pérouges. It followed the outer walls of the village walls and allowed an sneaky glimpse of the rear of some of the properties of the village and what a lovely job has been done of renovatingContinue reading “Jobs Day – Violay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France”

We sadly mistimed our walk with the arrival of the huskies on our last day at La Plagne, so we did not get to do our usual walk on our last day. Instead we got to walk down the piste before it opened and into Plagne Village to fetch a fresh baguette from the shopContinue reading “Descending from Altitude – Pérouges, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France”

We have had another energetic week in the mountains, this time with ski-in, ski-out from our motorhome in the handy Aire in Plagne-Village. We have made the most of our location since we luckily got the last space last Monday. Since then there has often been 5-6 vans in the overspill parking outside waiting toContinue reading “Skiing done ⛷- La Plagne, Savoie, France”