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- Ancient sites
- Art
- Day trips
- Entering France
- Festivals
- Fond Farewells
- Food
- Food markets
- Forests-Mountains-Streams
- French B&Bs
- French Chateau
- French Churches
- French Cities
- Friends joining us
- Gardens
- Getting to know the locals
- good beach – sea views
- Guided tours
- Hop on-Hop off
- Italian B&Bs
- Italian Festivals
- Italian Hairdressers
- Italian long stay
- Italian Towns
- Learning to cook the Italian way
- Local History
- Medical Emergencies
- Mountain Roads
- MUSEUM VISITS
- Pretty villages
- Restaurants
- Tourist Town
- Travel
- Travelling through
- Uncategorized
- Visiting friends
DORDOGNE – OUTSTANDING SCENERY – COUX-ET-BIGAROQUE
10th May: DORDOGNE – MISSING SOME PRETTY VILLAGES Dordogne was on the lips of many of our friends, and reading accounts of it’s outstanding scenery, Dordogne was a must place for a prolonged visit. I had studied all the options on Google maps and chose a route starting on the D140. This took us through […]
SAINTES
THE ARC DE GERMANICUS I’d made a few notes, but in the end we lazily made for the Arc de Germanicus, which we knew had been moved from its original site, where it had proved a blockage to traffic. It now occupies a large circular space close to the river. Germanicus had been the nephew of […]
PERFECT B&B – SAINT SAVINIEN
8th – 10th May 2018 A BIT HARD TO FIND – READ THE INSTRUCTIONS Miss SatNav sent us past Saint Savinien and onto a small hamlet – a maze of huddled houses bisected by small lanes that were little more than tracks. It kept stopping us outside a bungalow that was clearly not our […]
A FIELD OF CARVED MASONRY
An Architectural Museum in a Field It seems so French – plonking down an open-air museum in the middle of a field; no board, no fee, no attendant. Somebody (perhaps a mason) had cast copies of a plethora of beautiful and often vastly amusing carvings. And perhaps not finding a museum to pay […]
DISCOVERIES NEAR MELLE
MELLE to ST JEAN D’ANGÈLY – A SHORT ROAD OF DISCOVERIES 8th May 2018: We left Lusignan to rejoin the D150, which presently changed to the D950, stopping for refreshment in Melle, a very attractive town with flowerbeds, and an exuberant row of fountains in the town square. It also had a stately […]
LUSIGNAN
8TH May 2018: We happened upon Lusignan by accident. If I had not spotted the brown road sign, saying ‘Lusignan, medieval city, .25 klm’ we would have missed this treasure of French History. ON THE WAY TO SAINT SAVINIEN In the morning, saying our goodbyes to Brion Les Thouet, we were […]
- Ancient sites
- Art
- Day trips
- Entering France
- Festivals
- Fond Farewells
- Food
- Food markets
- Forests-Mountains-Streams
- French B&Bs
- French Chateau
- French Churches
- French Cities
- Friends joining us
- Gardens
- Getting to know the locals
- good beach – sea views
- Guided tours
- Hop on-Hop off
- Italian B&Bs
- Italian Festivals
- Italian Hairdressers
- Italian long stay
- Italian Towns
- Learning to cook the Italian way
- Local History
- Medical Emergencies
- Mountain Roads
- MUSEUM VISITS
- Pretty villages
- Restaurants
- Tourist Town
- Travel
- Travelling through
- Uncategorized
- Visiting friends
DORDOGNE – OUTSTANDING SCENERY – COUX-ET-BIGAROQUE
10th May: DORDOGNE – MISSING SOME PRETTY VILLAGES Dordogne was on the lips of many of our friends, and reading accounts of it’s outstanding scenery, Dordogne was a must place for a prolonged visit. I had studied all the options on Google maps and chose a route starting on the D140. This took us through […]
SAINTES
THE ARC DE GERMANICUS I’d made a few notes, but in the end we lazily made for the Arc de Germanicus, which we knew had been moved from its original site, where it had proved a blockage to traffic. It now occupies a large circular space close to the river. Germanicus had been the nephew of […]
PERFECT B&B – SAINT SAVINIEN
8th – 10th May 2018 A BIT HARD TO FIND – READ THE INSTRUCTIONS Miss SatNav sent us past Saint Savinien and onto a small hamlet – a maze of huddled houses bisected by small lanes that were little more than tracks. It kept stopping us outside a bungalow that was clearly not our […]
A FIELD OF CARVED MASONRY
An Architectural Museum in a Field It seems so French – plonking down an open-air museum in the middle of a field; no board, no fee, no attendant. Somebody (perhaps a mason) had cast copies of a plethora of beautiful and often vastly amusing carvings. And perhaps not finding a museum to pay […]
