Today we took the train to Roskilde, which is about twenty minutes away from Copenhagen, to the Viking Ship Museum where they are building Viking ships using experimental archeology. They have five wrecks that were sunk a thousand years ago to be used as a blockade of the port, and they are building replicas using…

Today was a bit experimental as Pauline wasn’t sure about all the links, for example according to google there was no bus on the island of ærø so we thought we might have to hitch a ride. Anyway we took the bus from Flensburg to Fynshav in Denmark as that’s where Ellen the E-ferry leaves…

Flensburg turned out to be a delightful place to stay, there’s a historic walk called the “captains walk” which takes you around some of the older houses some of which were possibly built for actual captains back in the day. There’s also a museum for classic sailing merchant vessels, and classic yachts, as well as…

The train to Brussels took a few hours, but it seemed longer because a lady across the aisle from us was talking loudly to all her friends on her cell phone until finally someone told her off. Noise canceling headphones to the rescue! Thursday we had a nice day in Brussels, wandering about the Grand-Place…

After a nice breakfast at the Hotel Bayeux we took a walk in the town and then headed for Fougere. The Château de Fougères is one of Europe’s largest medieval fortresses, Pauline was keen to visit so we stopped there on the way back home. We were glad we did, well worth a visit. Nice…

Last weekend on the Sunday we biked along the canal to Saint-Gobrien which is a tiny little village with an 11th century church which is slowly being restored. This week we’ve mostly been doing admin things like getting french sim cards, hiring a carpet cleaner and cleaning the carpets so this weekend we thought we’d…

This morning we went to the market, then after lunch drove to Auray and bought the correct length curtains at a bricolage there, then headed to the port of Saint-Goustan where incidentally Benjamin Franklin arrived on 3 December 1776 at the beginning of the US war of independence to seek military aid from Louis XVI. Its a…

The house is heated with a number of ancient radiators and a large boiler which was installed not long before we bought the house but it’s quite a quirky thing and has given us endless fun over the years, not least because Monsieur Dany the man who maintained it for us was such a nice…

We stayed the night in Rennes at a nice little old fashioned hotel and picked up the car the next day. It turned out to be a Polestar which is a very nice car indeed but maybe a bit larger than you’d like for small french villages. It just fits in the garage with all…