We noticed immediately that the Spanish countryside was quite different to France, a lot dustier and the architecture was very Spanish, we passed houses that reminded me of early westerns actually, there was even one called “The Ponderosa” as in Bonanza if anybody still remembers that great TV program. It was fascinating driving through this…

Well we’ve done it slightly hard, really, as in Bordeaux Pauline and I were both felled by a really bad cold, and we ended up staying there an extra day as we were not up to doing much. And for some reason I injured my neck the first night, possibly as I was sleeping in…

Wow, this is me, doing a blog like a really modern person! This posting is mainly for Jared, to show him the canal and the lock system in France. In the old days they used to move lots of cargo around by barges (big flat boats) pulled by horses.  They made canals for the boats…

We got up early in Josselin and caught the bus to Rennes, grabbed some lunch at the train station and picked up our hire car, which is a Citroen C3 diesel like this one except ours is green.  I was very pleased to get a diesel car as the price of diesel in Europe is…

We are currently in San Sebastian, Spain. The header of this blog is now a panorama of the bay, as you can see it’s rather pretty. We are staying here a couple of days, I will post some more tomorrow. Adios amigos!

Yesterday was the 1201st anniversary of the Pardon in Josselin, and as you can see the weather was fantastic. Although it must have been tough for some of the quite elderly people carrying banners and all dressed up in the heat. There was a procession aux flambeaux the night before, very impressive, followed by a…

Le Mont-Saint-Michel is a rocky tidal island in Normandy. In 708 St Michael the archangel appeared to St Aubert, the bishop of  Avranches, and instructed him to build a church on the islet. Aubert repeatedly ignored the angel’s instruction, until St Michael burned a hole in the bishop’s head with his finger (apparently.)  A shrine…

Le Mont Saint Michel In the weekend we drove up to St Malo, stopping at Dinan for lunch. Dinan is a smallish town on the river Rance.  At it’s center is a walled medieval town with some fine buildings, some as old as 13th century. We had sandwiches, we found some fantastic postcards of classic…