- Ancient sites
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- 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
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- Learning to cook the Italian way
- Local History
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NEMOURS TO BOURGES – SCENIC ROUTE
DAY 3: 5th September 1st STOP ON SCENIC ROUTE to BOURGES – ORLEANS After finding some breakfast we really started our tour, taking the scenic route from Nemours to Orleans – then Bourges. Some low hills appeared, and we took an ‘A’ road through a few pretty towns. One had a […]
Joan of Arc and the Belle Epoch.
DAY 2: 4th September: REIMS TO NEMOURS: We sped along the toll road to Nemours, our next night’s destination. We stopped at Reims for Graham to take some more photos of the particularly good depiction in bronze of Joan of Arc. She looks so very young and small to be managing her rearing […]
COUNTRY ROUTE TO SORGES
DAY 4: 6th September: DREADFUL BREAKFAST – EARLIEST START After F1’s ‘Healthy breakfast’ of cornflakes, undrinkable coffee and a tiny, limp croissant (€7 each) that day’s country route to Sorges was the most scenic so far. The A20/A9 took us through the spectacular ‘Dordogneshire’ countryside. Majestic trees, gorges, cliffs, rivers – ooh, […]
THIERS IN AUVERGNE – VIEWS & VOLCANOES
DAY 6 & 7: 8th & 9th September: Onward to the Auvergne. BRITS OFTEN NEGLECT THIS SPECIAL REGION Instead of exploring more of the Dordogne right then, we struck across to the East, making for The Auvergne, an area at that time virtually unexplored by Brits. I had planned a route to take in […]
