In the mornings I usually walk down to the boulangerie in our street and buy some bread, which is still warm. The lady knows me now and smiles although the conversation is rather limited. “Bonjour madame.” “Un pain cereales s’il vous plait.” “Bonne journée madame.” That sort of thing. I have bread or toast for…

We’ve been in Josselin a few days now. We had an interesting trip from Paris first taking the TGV to Rennes and from there a bus which stopped at a couple of small villages along the way. We’ve been settling in, finding out how things work, unpacking and making ourselves at home. Yesterday we picked…

We very much enjoyed our time here, it’s a very liveable city as well as a stunningly beautiful one. We had a look inside Notre Dame, we read our books beside the Seine, we took a boat tour on the Seine, we followed the footsteps of Inspector Maigret from the Quai des Orfevres where his…

We arrived at Paris  Charles de Gaulle airport from Munich after a reasonably pleasant wait, helped by Lufthansa supplying free coffee, tea and newspapers at the gate. Pauline managed to sleep for a while. The cost of things in Europe became immediately apparent when I bought two bottles of water and was charged 7.4 euros…

The drive north to the border from Liberty was very pleasant, lots of forests and fairly light traffic. We stopped near Plattsburgh for lunch, and then drove until we hit the border about 5 hours after we’d set off. The Canadian border guard was mostly interested in how much money we were bringing with us…