- Ancient sites
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- Entering France
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- Food
- Food markets
- Forests-Mountains-Streams
- French B&Bs
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- French Cities
- Friends joining us
- Gardens
- Getting to know the locals
- good beach – sea views
- Guided tours
- Hop on-Hop off
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- Italian Hairdressers
- Italian long stay
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- Learning to cook the Italian way
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CHARMING ROUEN
AN ELEGANT 17C STREET IN CHARMING ROUEN We finally emerged from the Cathedral into warm sunshine. I had a grand time zooming along on my scooter, exploring all around the old streets, and enjoying the garden surrounding another great church. It stood on an elevated site, and to one side […]
MONET’S GARDEN – GIVERNY
4th May 2018: MONET’S PARADISE OUR ADVICE – BOOK IN ADVANCE Giverny is truly Monet’s Paradise. Both garden and house demonstrate his love of colours, and his way of putting them together. It is well worth the ticket price. You will get in cheaper – and more importantly – save yourself […]
ANET – NEAR DREUX
4th May 2018: CHARTRES ROAD HAS SQUARE TREES LEAVING GIVERNY, we took the A13 for CHARTRES. The road soon turned into the A928. It took us through mostly unremarkable agricultural land. In the town of Dreux, we saw again a sight that had intrigued us on previous visits. As the main road […]
VER-LE-CHARTRES
4th MAY: 2018 VER-LE-CHARTRES – B&B OF SURPRISES: I have tried to give a good review on Trip Advisor for ‘Maison’ in Ver-le-Chartres, but found no facility to do so. Anyway, after driving up and down the main street of the very small village without finding a sign we stopped and […]
