Just a quick note: we will be off the air for a while- no internet in Pernes Les Fontaines (Provence) save for free wi fi at a local pub! Having a ball with the Macers!!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

On the Road pt 2 August 3-4

Image
Out of Bergen (easily, we’d already done it twice previously) on to Luster via the snow road (see photos of the traffic jam) and a night at Dosen Gard. Then via Lom to Geiranger and another series of hairpin bends to Eidsdal, in a cabin perched on the side of a mountain! Finally to Hjelle via Stryn, more tunnels and ferries, to a magnificent old Swiss style hotel on the edge of a glacier-fed lake.
Read more

All aboard for the Archipelago! August 9

Image
His name was Anders. He has a small boat 🚣‍♀️, in which we toured a little of Stockholm’s famous archipelago. More than 20000 islands of all shapes and sizes, some inhabited, others not. We stepped ashore on one small island which had one farming family on it, running sheep and fishing for a number of generations. Incredibly, this part of the world is slowly rising out of the sea, in response to millions of years of ice having covered it, up to 3 or 4 kilometres thick, subsequently melting and releasing the downwards pressure. A good response to rising sea levels 🌊?
Read more

Goodbye Brigitte! Avignon and Nice

Image
I knew it would all end in tears! Farewell and bon voyage to Pernes, the 'gite' and to Aude, her chocolate gateau, her aubergine mousse and her never-ending parade of bikinis! Notice the tears welling in all our eyes: Aude and her husband/brother/uncle (we never did find out) with relief to be finally rid of us, the rest of us with sadness at the end of a great holiday. Having put Tony and Debbie onto the very fast train to Paris and London, we explored Avignon for a couple of hours before our train left for Nice. Avignon has a long history back to the Roman times (of course!) and was for a time in the Middle Ages the head of the Catholic church before the Vatican regained control. The Popes of Avignon made sure the city ramparts were up to scratch keeping the barbarians out. Nowadays it is overrun by busloads of American tourists looking to dance 'sur le pont d'Avignon'. We took one look and fled! Me and Brigitte having a final moment! Le Peugeot 3008 avec sat-nav,...
Read more