Why did we do that?

Friday, 19 August 2011

Dumyat August 19

Summer is over, and the schools have gone back.
There was a warning on the radio for fog in the area. They were not wrong.

Took the caravan off to Crail. Auntie had a birthday to celebrate and we had a caravan to use.

For the geographically challenged, let me tell you that the water is the Firth of Forth, and the Island is the Isle of May.

(The caravan is a 2005 Hobby 495UK with front bunks, a rear dinette, and a working electric flush Thetford toilet.)

Where the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea

Off on our travels again.We stopped off in Newcastle (not a Geordie in sight by the way) and strolled along the sea front (or is it the Strand?) There is a Lidls here which has a tower. I have never seen the likes.....

Saturday, 6 August 2011

On the way out of Vimoutiers, on the Route Départementale D 979, heading to Gacé

Child 1 returns to the tank last visited in 1997, and child 2 makes her first visit to the tank. We are a couple of miles south of Vimoutiers, heading to our gite holiday at Le Puy. Sunday July 2nd.

Monday, 18 July 2011

Cruising down the Dordogne

From the gite at Le Puy, we went for a day trip to the Dordogne river region. We went to Sarlat and had a great pizza lunch in the old town. After some serious shopping, we went on to the banks of the Dordogne wher we found a coffee shop! You can hire canoes from here, and paddle down the river, but you can just sit and have another coffee :)

Sunday, 17 July 2011

Chartres by night

We went back into Chartres at night to see the light show which is projected onto various buildings in the city. The show was on from 10 pm until 1 am, which we thought was going to be a bit weird, but we were still there after midnight, following the trail around the streets. We were not alone.

As is traditional on the last night or our holidays we like to see if we can hide the car in a foreign city. This year was no exception. However the car was recovered after a short search....

Roll on next year.